My children and I gathered around the whiteboard in the kitchen this morning and wrote out all the things we’d like to do. (2) We created a “Summer Bucket List.” I’ve never done this before, but I remembered that Allyson Reynolds put one together last year that looked like SO much fun, and I figured we could do the same thing! I always get to the end of the summer and think, “How did the time pass so quickly? I never even got together with so and so or made it to that museum we’ve been dying to see.” Not this summer…. Clever, right? Click here to view Suzanne’s summer schedule. And Saren has developed a great summer camp program here. She schedules a weekly park day, a weekly swim day, a weekly field trip day, a monthly date night out, and a monthly Girls’ Night Out, and then she types up the whole thing and gives copies to all her friends so they can easily join in the fun. Suzanne is one of those mothers who makes the most of every summer month. ![]() They are both incredible, and though I didn’t implement all of their great ideas, they inspired me to come up with a plan that would really work for my family. (1) I took a few minutes to study creative summer plans my friends Suzanne and Saren have shared with me. Whatever it was that caused these summertime blues, I was determined to find a solution this morning, and I thought I’d share what we discovered. They were under the impression that summer was going to be one non-stop party, and I was envisioning a beautiful month of de-junking and hanging out at home. Or, maybe I was grumpy because I hadn’t thought about all the laundry, cleaning, and organizing that needed to be done, and I hadn’t shared my summertime goals with my children. Maybe, it was because I really wanted to exercise and take a shower, but I hadn’t anticipated that all of my children would want to whine and complain and sit right next to me while I tried to take on Jillian Michael’s 30-Day Shred (loved that workout, by the way…even WITH my little ones all around me). Maybe it was because I stayed in bed too long, and by the time I got up, my two-year-old had dumped garbage all over the living room, my older children were itching to run around outside, and we no longer had the time to take that day trip we’d been planning. School is out, the weather is great, and we are excited…so why did I end up in such a grumpy mood this morning? ![]() ![]() Today is the first day of summer for my family.
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