The kids and I were working on "All About Me" collages for the front covers of our journals, Pandora was on the computer and Somewhere Over the Rainbow by IZ started to play....the room was full sweet music, magazine scraps and the happy chatter of my children. I stopped and drank up the perfect moment...it was Kodak meets Hallmark, and I felt completely at peace with my world.

And then it hit me - it's only day two and I've already used up every cute, creative idea I'd managed to come up with this summer. With 178 days to go.