I'm a summer baby. Maybe that is why I have always loved summer. I know it's hot and can get boring with no real schedule but I still love it. I love the pool and have slowly figured out ways to make that even easier and enjoyable. We squeezed in an hour of the pool yesterday from 7pm-8pm after working on the house all day. We had promised the kids that if they helped all day, we would go take a dip in the water. I braced myself for horribly cold water and crying children that would need to tell me how cold it was every three seconds. It didn't happen. The water was great! The baby loved it and looked absolutely adorable in her little swimsuit. (pictures to come). My husband and I enjoyed it as well and could relax for a little while. Ahh...gotta love summer! Too bad the kids have school for 3 more weeks!
All of this made me think that if I can just survive the next 3 weeks, then we will have moved in. We will be down to just one house (can't tell you how great that will be!) No more workers coming and going at all times of the day. It will just be our house and slowly as we make it our own it will become our home and refuge.
The pool and all this thinking made me get excited for summer. We have been doing so much work and not really very many fun things since spring began that we deserve some serious fun this summer. Course I need to keep it pretty close to free fun with all the money going into the house but free fun can still be fun, right?
I was looking at a friend's blog and she had some cute ideas for keeping things fun but somewhat organized so you don't get the "what are we doing today?" chat every morning.
She follows this schedule:
Movie Monday (she also mentioned changing it to Masterpiece Monday if your kids like doing arts and crafts or science experiments.
Take a Trip Tuesday (like the park, zoo, bike rides, picnics, etc)
Wet Wednesday (anything water goes!!)
Anything goes Thursday ( this is where you work from a list of things you and kids want to accomplish during the summer)
Friend Friday (Everyone gets to have a friend over and that way you get the play dates done in one day and no one needs to ask the rest of the week!)
If anyone wants to join us on any of these days, just give me a ring! As my kids have been singing around the house lately " Schools out for summer."...i guess they are getting ready since they still have exactly 14 more days!
