Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Summer Fun!

I will get back to posting more about our first days with Ellie, but I really want to start blogging again about what is going on now as well.  Today is May 29 and tomorrow our big boy will be SIX years old!  What?!? Yikes!  His birthday is always the kickoff to our summer and last night I finally got around to making and hanging a Summer Bucket List of sorts.  I don't really like the term "Bucket List", because doesn't it have to do with things you want to do before you "kick the bucket"?  So maybe a Summer Bucket List is a list of things you want to do before Summer itself kicks the bucket...hhmmmm...anyway...


I was inspired by The Happy Family Movement through an insta.gram friend to make and post our bucket list here.



I separated our activities into three groups:  Inside activities, outside activities, and trips.  I keep thinking of more stuff to add too...Yikes!

Inside Activities
  • Make a homemade pizza together.
  • Have a pajama day.
  • Make a musical instrument.
  • Play with blocks/legos together.
  • Play a board game as a family.
  • Bake cookies.
  • Make play dough.
  • Build a blanket fort.
  • Spontaneous dance party.
  • Costume party at home.
  • Family movie night at home with popcorn and snacks.
  • Fingerpaint.
  • Use the bathtub like a pool.
  • Paint rocks.
  • Make a card for Father's Day.
  • Make paper airplanes and race them.
  • Science Experiments day.
  • Write a letter/card to a friend.
  • Make Oobleck.
  • Have a family slumber party.
  • Put together a puzzle.

Outdoor Activities
  • Picnic in the backyard.
  • Make S'mores.
  • Homemade ice cream.
  • Paint with colorful ice cubes.
  • Play in the sprinklers.
  • Blow bubbles.
  • Play in the sandbox together.
  • Dance in the rain.
  • Go fishing.
  • Wash the van together.
  • Sidewalk chalk.
  • Have a watermelon.
  • Read a book outside in the shade.
  • Fly a kite.
  • Water balloon fight.
  • Ride bikes.
  • Catch fireflies.
  • Listen to music outside.
  • Play games with glow sticks after dark.
  • Go on a reptile hunt.
  • Take a nature walk.
  • Garden.
  • Bird watching.
  • Camp out in the backyard.
  • Star gaze.
  • Ethan learn to jump rope.
  • Frisbee or Disc Golf.
  • Play hopscotch.

On the Go!
  • Summer Reading Program at the Library.
  • Mill Springs.
  • Play at the park.
  • Ethan's birthday party!
  • Waterpark.
  • Lake.
  • Farmers' Market.
  • Free Movies.
  • Surprise Daddy at work with a picnic lunch.
  • Watch fireworks.
  • Go swimming.
  • Walk the new trail at the local park.
  • Visit the Children's Garden at the PC Library.
  • Take a hike.
  • Church Picnic.
  • Local Museum.
  • Visit friends who live far away.
Whew!  We sure have lots to do this summer!  I'm so excited about having these fun things planned.  Now...I have a few goals of my own that aren't so fun, but that's a post for another day! 

Have a blessed summer y'all!


 

Friday, July 8, 2011

Grateful.

I'm linking up with Gypsy Mama and 5 Minute Friday.
Want to take five minutes with me and just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. Here’s how we do it:
1. Write for 5 minutes flat with no editing, tweaking or self critiquing.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in {you can grab the button code in my right side bar}
3. Go and tell the person who linked up before you what their words meant to you. Every writer longs to feel heard.
Today's promt...
Grateful.
GO!
I have so many things to be grateful for.  A little boy in particular that helps life my spirits anytime, anywhere.

I'm grateful his daddy is teaching him manly things...like how to hold his fish and what a "leverman" (Leather.man) is for.


I'm grateful for birthday parties and cousins and kiddie pools.


And grateful for being that mom that lets him have too much sugar on special occasions.


I'm so grateful that my big boy will still fall asleep on his mommy's lap.
Even in the middle of the lake.


And VERY grateful for swimmies and for bravery I've never seen in a four year old delicately balanced with a respect for the water.


I'm grateful for this yellow two seat kayak that has taken Ben and I from dates the first summer we were together to riding our first born in it.


And grateful we both have days off work when we can enjoy it together and for a husband that knows where to go to avoid the holiday traffic :)

 I and I am so very grateful for little signs.  I am so grateful for seeing so many dragonflies this summer.


I am so very thankful for summer and all the beauty that makes it what it is.


STOP.