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I <\/b><\/span>cannot<\/b><\/span><\/i> believe that it’s August 1st already! What the heck?!? Our summer has been so busy with sports, vacations, camps and fun trips that we have not a single free weekend to just lay around and do nothing…but who does, right?!? I would like to know who coined the phrase \u2014’lazy dog days of summer’\u2014 because I sure have not had a lazy day yet. That’s okay, though…I love my life right now and I know that it’s not going to last forever, so I’m going to enjoy my life as much as I can and maybe in about 20 years, I’ll experience one of those lazy dog days!!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"