Recharge.

Recharged. That is how I feel today. I am totally exhausted after a late night of fun last night, but feel great! It is like the summer zen that I have been searching for finally came together and today I am fully THERE.

It all started with dinner creativity last night. Just like during the schoolyear, cooking dinner at night is always such a calming thing for me...weird, I know, but it is. I was all ready to make chicken chiorizo kabobs, though, when I realized I bought the wrong kind of chiorizo. Quickly, I changed my focus, and simply made chicken and chiorizo over cheddar cheese polenta and voila! 5 star dining at home, and that great feeling that comes from successfully thinking on your feet! Add red wine, eating on the patio, and Sting "Symphonicities," which I am full on obsessed with, on the remote speakers and, the batteries were coming on up to quarter full.

Next, it was on to Marnie and Kyle's house for their "Honeybear Party," with plenty of outdoor musical fun, dancing, and a beverage or two (or three, or four...oops:) Talking and laughing with friends, meeting fun new people, DANCING with my hubby, the man who doesn't dance, but for some reason HAS, not once, but TWICE in the past month. Then the evening ended with long, late night porch talking with Tim and Sue. Let's just say it was the kind of night where, at 2:30 in the morning, while completely exhausted, physically, I felt the battery juicing up, at least to half.

Today brought the "phew, hot, humid, and tired as hell," but it has been the best day! We didn't even get up until around 10, and then I sat around, drank coffee and watched TV or read my "summer beach read"until about 1! Then we all decided to go to the movies, "Despicable Me" at two, which brings us to now. Gwynn is happily relaxing in the living room, Tim and Devin are grilling hot dogs, and I have my time to write. Tonight's plan consists of nothing more than the same...eat, read, TV, fan on high blowing our cares away. Today was just plain zen...no fights, no quibbling, no "I'm hots" or "I'm hungrys," just happy, calm, family existance, with a little bit of fun thrown in. Batteries are back to full, and I am ready for the rest of the summer...bring it!