Thank you, Summer!

Summer St. Pierre has been babysitting Beatrice for me twice a week every week since Beatrice was eight months old so that I could work on writing part-time. In those nineteen months, Beatrice and Jack have become almost like family. Not to mention the fact that Beatrice completely adores Summer.




In fact I would say Beatrice's relationship with Summer and Jack has been one of the best parts of her life so far.
Now fall is around the corner and with it will come some big changes. Summer is going back to work full-time as a teacher, making a lot of other (older) kids as happy as she's made Beatrice. Beatrice and Jack are starting preschool. We have a new baby. And I have new writing assigments and different daycare needs. Which means that this will be the last week that I drop off Beatrice at Summer's house and head over to Starbucks to write for five hours.

Naturally I'll still see Summer all the time (we've been friends since fifth grade, after all) and Jack and Beatrice will continue to be great friends, but I can't help but feel sad to see this part of our lives end. And not just because every time I pick up Beatrice, Summer has done something absolutely adorable to her hair.

Thank you, thank you, Summer! Whatever work I've gotten done the last year and a half is entirely because of you! I don't know what we'll do without you. (And you still have to come over and do Beatrice's hair before any special occasions.)