Summer time!
ByDoes anybody else start out the summer with all kinds of goals and lists of things you want to accomplish? I usually do. And then they usually don’t happen! Ugh! I am so bad about having all of these great ideas in my head and then when summer gets here we just take it easy and do a lot of nothing! Oh, well! Sometimes we really need to do that. Life is so busy – especially during the school year – that sometimes we need to just stop and take a breath. 
I do have some things that I hope to accomplish this summer though – as well as some things that we already have planned:
- We have a DVD player that also records to DVD and I have wanted to back up all of our home videos on to DVDs ever since we got it. I’ve been able to get a lot of them done but I have so many more to do! I’d like to make a bigger dent in that this summer.
- I also scrapbook and I haven’t touched it in a while. That busy school year thing again! Anyway, I’d like to pull all that out and get busy getting some pages done! I am SO far behind on that it’s not even funny. Maybe I’ll finish when my grandkids are grown! (And my kids are still teens so that tells you how far out that is! haha!)
- One thing I’m pretty positive will get accomplished at this point is a minor surgery I have to have at the end of the month. I’m both dreading and looking forward to that.
- Along with that I still have some more doctor app0intments – I’ve kind of had a flurry of those this spring!
- My son is just starting a new indoor soccer session so we’ll be attending lots of fun soccer games over the next eight weeks or so!
- My daughter is in a talent competition called American Kids and we are getting ready to go to the state competition and then if she makes it to nationals we’ll be heading to Branson, Missouri, in the middle of July.
- We are in a homeschool co-op and some of us moms have decided to plan some fun get-togethers over the summer. I’m really looking forward to those. We always have so much fun together! In the past we’ve done murder mystery parties, game nights, and even a lock-in (yes – just for moms!) at the church where we have co-op. This summer we’re doing Bunko nights and craft nights together.
- The kids also have some parties with the co-op kids planned. The kids also have a blast at those.
- Our family has passes to a local water park as well as an amusement park so we’re hoping to enjoy those a lot this summer. We’ve had unseasonable cool temperatures for this time of year around here though so we haven’t even been to the water park yet! A lot of times we’ve seen quite a few days in the 100′s by now but it’s mostly been in the upper 80′s and occasionally some 90′s. Weird stuff!! I’m not going to complain too loudly though.
I need to get busy on all this stuff though. Before I know it, August will be here and we’ll be at football practice four nights a week and I won’t even have time to think much less do any of this!
What about you? What are your summer plans? You can share in the comments or make your own post and just leave a link here.
We always PLAN and never execute. Argh. I get so lazy in the summer and my days get away from me! So far I’m planning on learning to sew with kiddo, scrapbooking, and lots of bookstore/library/shopping days!
The swimming around here is sketchy so that kind of stinks. We like on Lake Erie but it’s pretty gross…they even have days they won’t allow you to swim because of eColi levels! Ewwww. The pools are either falling apart or too expensive (ten to twelve dollars A PIECE) and we can’t get a membership due to living outside of city limits. Sigh.
We’ll do the zoo a few times, too. We have that on the schedule one day this week, in fact! I’m also planning on a bit of school work: math refresher, reading, keyboarding/word processing, and handwriting. Of course, I say that every year and rarely follow through…
So, you’re saying you and I are a lot alike as far as the plan and not much follow through!
The library is a big part of our summer too. I don’t know why I didn’t think to put that! Summer time means I actually have TIME to sit and read. I love it!
Your swimming situation sounds a little sad! Yeah, I don’t think I’d want to be swimming where there’s a possibility of getting eColi! Scary!
Hopefully we’ll both be able to accomplish great things this summer!
Sorry…we LIVE on Lake Erie, not like on it. We definitely don’t like it!
I tend to make great plans for my kids for the summer – you can read about those here – http://girlstogrow.blogspot.com/2009/05/summer-learning-schedule.html – but I was just thinking the other day that I need to set some goals for myself!
Tracey, it looks like you win the award for organization! You definitely have things better planned than I do!
Looks like a lot of fun!!
Hi,
I like the articles you post about homeschooling and parenting.
Joey is now 10 months old. I just found he starts getting interested in words, so I am thinking to make the 26-alphabet cards, one card one letter.
But what confuses me is what letter I should write on the cards, capital letters or small letters?
If I wish to write some simple words, like ‘cat’, for him to read, shall I spell it in capital letters or small letters?
Your any advice would be very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks, Grace! It’s exciting that you are so interested in doing things with your son so that he can learn! I wouldn’t worry TOO much about letters yet – he’s still a little young.
If he just really gets into it though I would probably start with small letters. Those are the easiest for a child to learn first. 