04/28/2025
(Outtake from 🥰)
I was reading a USA Today article about climate change that largely spoke about Phoenix being the quickest to warm of all major cities - an already deadly hot place only getting hotter and hotter every year. I stumbled upon this article the morning after Everett was going on and on about how he doesn’t like summer here. For these main reasons: 1. “it’s way too hot and we can’t do anything outside which is what summer is for as a kid - is to be outside. (I fully agree). 2. It stays light too long and I have to go to bed before sunset 3. I don’t get to spend the summer playing with my cousins very much”.
I agree with 2 of those things. Summers as a kid should be spend running around the yard with all your cousins. Sure they get a week or so with each side of the family to see them, but that’s not enough. And I know it’s not because he just brought it up and it’s not even summer yet. The cost to fly, rent cars, rent houses, get pet sitters, etc isn’t decreasing at all. Trying to plan a week’s time around EVERYONE’s schedules is nearly impossible. Family members bend over backwards to make our little window of time work - it’s a lot on everyone. I’m SO grateful to have so many loving family members and so many people who love my kids and want to spend time with them. Enough is enough though, right? All signs point to living closer to them for a million and one reasons. The kids want it. That should be all we need to hear. The reason for not being allowed to move that have been told to the kids have nothing to do with them or their wants/needs/well-being. Not a thing. It’s wrong. My conviction about this runs deep, though. We will get there. I know it. My “why” for a better future for my kids runs deeper than excuses they and I hear over and over again. I want what’s best for them. They want it. The universe hears us. We’re on our way. I don’t know the how or when, but I know the why and that’s the most important thing.
