Summer Twilight

To sum up this summer - it STUNK!!!  It has been a really hard couple of months.  June was filled with conferences, meetings, camp, and various obligations.  I barely had time to catch my breath.  July was even worse.  Mom broke her leg which put her out of commission, Jeremy was in the ER on the 4th of July, the stampede was a colossal waste of time, and then I hurt my neck really really bad (I don't do well with pain).  Plus Matt was gone to school twice a week the entire summer, not to mention homework, tests, group projects, and term papers that needed to be done outside of class.  We didn't even get to do the summer of movies.  Blah!! Needless to say, I could have just skipped the summer.  I was thinking about the past two months and one thing that I always looked forward to kept coming up. 
I think that the books and movies have ruined the term twilight.  Twilight is not sparkly vampires and teenage angst.  Twilight is the soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, most commonly, from sunset to nightfall.  During the "summer of chaos" Matt and I would always find some time to take a stroll through our neighborhood during the twilight hours.  After the kids were in bed, I grabbed a hoodie and my flip flops and we would be on our way.  We walked.  We talked.  We dreamed of far away places.  We made plans.  We would unwind.  We left everything behind.  So amid all of the obligation and chaos, I always had the summer twilight to help me get through.  It is the best time of day, especially when you are with someone you love.