Hi Reader,

I'm writing to you from my porch. Indy is at my feet doing what Indy does best (sleeping). My coffee is on the side table getting cold because I keep forgetting to drink it. The morning light is still soft and it's not horribly humid yet.

This is the summer I keep wanting to give you. Slow. Unhurried. Full of small, soft moments that don't ask anything of you except your attention.

Because we wait for summer all year. And then it gets here and we somehow miss it. We pack the calendar. We say yes to too much. We turn a beautiful season into a productivity contest.

But what if this summer felt different?

That's the question I've been sitting with for months. And I have been working on something — quietly, slowly, with so much love — that I cannot wait to share.

✨ Home Sweet Summer is coming this Sunday!

A keepsake digital magazine with 40+ pages of slow living, gathered for your family.

A peek inside:

🌿 A 12-week devotional pull-out with scripture cards

🍅 Family recipes my house actually asks for

☀️ A Father's Day + Summer Solstice feature (they fall on the same day this year)

🎆 A homemade Fourth of July guide

👵 Grandma's Corner — with a vintage recipe and a Story Night idea

👶 Pages for every age — littles, teens, grandmas, dads

📋 Printables, meal plans, and so much more

It launches Sunday, June 21 — Father's Day and the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. Couldn't have picked a more fitting day if I tried.

And there's more coming...

A 12-week slow living podcast series starts the same week.

A new blog post every Monday.

A whole summer-long arc — from "school's out" in June through "summer's sweet goodbye" in late August.

You don't need to do any of it perfectly. This is a buffet, not a checklist. Take what nourishes you. Leave the rest.

I'll send you the magazine link the moment it goes live on Sunday morning. Watch your inbox. 💚

In the meantime — a small invitation to begin slow summer this week:

🌿 Drink your first coffee outside one morning

🍋 Make a real pitcher of lemonade and let it sit on the counter

📚 Read one chapter of a book on the porch

☎️ Call a grandparent. No agenda.

That's it. Four small things. Pick one. Pick none. You're allowed.

A small recommendation for slow mornings 📰

I finish my coffee most mornings with the 1440 newsletter open on my phone. It's how I get my daily news without doom-scrolling before I've even said hello to the day.

Curated for the best information. Genuinely full of good news mixed in with what's actually worth knowing. A five-minute read. The kind of thing that fits a slow summer morning without unraveling the peace.

If you've been looking for a calmer way to stay informed — this is mine.

Sign up to try it for your news source — it's free and will show up in your inbox each morning.

This is a sponsored mention, but I'm a daily reader and wouldn't share it if I weren't. 💕

In the meantime — a small invitation to begin slow summer this week:

🌿 Drink your first coffee outside one morning

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🍋 Make a real pitcher of lemonade and let it sit on the counter

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📚 Read one chapter of a book on the porch

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☎️ Call a grandparent. No agenda.

That's it. Four small things. Pick one. Pick none. You're allowed.

That's it for today, friend. Just a porch sit and a little love letter from me to you.

See you Sunday with the magazine.

With love (and a cold coffee),

P.S. If you have a friend who needs permission to slow down this summer — forward this email. I'd love for her to walk through the next 12 weeks with us!