My Summer Activity Wish List

This past week was the last week of school. Ahhhhhh!

It brings a lot of emotions. It’s good. This past week, I have been kind of operating under the mantra of “Go, go, go, get as much done while they are still in school!” I am a little lonely, because most people I know are doing the same things as me or they are working and trying to finish off the last round of things that need to get done before the kids are home for the summer.

Also there are still a lot of last minute summer preparations to do. Mr. Katie is still finishing up registering the boys for camp. I am frantically putting things on the calendar for the next three months.

A few days ago, I spent two hours filing and shredding papers I thought were once important enough to save.

I am returning items to their storage places and vacuuming like mad. I am acting like this is the only time I am going to have for myself for the next four years.

You see the thing is that up until this year, mostly Mr. Katie and I only watched TV shows that we wanted to watch while the boys were asleep.

All I can say is ay yi yi. That’s too much pressure to put on onesself.

In fact, I still plan a lot of my life things for times when they are asleep or out and about. It’s probably a habit that I picked up when they were babies and I just never stopped doing it.

I need to stop doing that though!

The thing is, now they stay up later. By the time they go to bed, I am tired. Last night, I fell asleep while Mr. Katie was waiting outside their room during the required fifteen minutes Mr. Man likes us to wait outside of his room after tucking him in.

So this summer, I want to start doing things that I want to do while they are awake.

We haven’t painted the walls of our house since we moved in. I think the paint job could use a re-fresh. Maybe the boys could help me get ready to do that. I also want to buy some mulch and shovel it around our bushes. I haven’t put in our tomato plants for this season either yet.

One of my favorite summer memories from when I was a kid were the many summers that my Dad enlisted us to scrape the peeling white fence in the backyard before someone painted it again (probably him, maybe us, I don’t remember). That sounds like a facetious statement, but I really do remember liking to scrape the paint with him. I like doing the fun stuff too like the annual Pirates game that we would go to and renting a pontoon boat on vacation.

We’ve also been considering how to incorporate them into the weekly chores that need to be done. I also would like to teach them more about how to prepare food. Just call this unit life skills.

Katie’s Summer Activity Wish List:

• Work with the boys on life skills like: cooking, cleaning, caring for one’s space
• Read with the boys
• Camp (maybe with friends)
• Go to Hershey Park
• Make fun recipes with the boys, maybe ice cream making
• Get my garden up and running (I have literally done nothing with it yet)
• Sometimes I have a summer that revolves around driving the boys from fun activity to fun activity. This year, I would like to have a summer where I teach them things and we have fun but also it revolves a little more around what I want to do too.
• Have the boys stay up late enough to catch lightning bugs
• Encourage the boys to sleep later than they do during the school year because they now stay up later
• Keep reading the Harry Potter series aloud with Mr. Man
• Go to Dorney Park. I bought season passes yesterday. It’s close by. We can go for a few hours at a time, in theory.
• Visit Western PA for a short trip

What are you up to this summer?

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