This summer was different from those in the recent past.   I think a couple factors let me categorize this as one of the best ever.  First, I am not pregnant and I am not the mother of a baby or a toddler.  This very significant fact is bittersweet.  Time.  It doesn’t stop.  Everybody keeps growing bigger and I just picked up my niece who is now a freshman at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  She was the flower girl at our wedding!!  For the past 11 summers, I have been either pregnant, nursing or the mother of a baby or a toddler. Continue reading →