This past week we caught our first glimpse of summer. With double digit temperatures, we began to dream of our favourite season and all that it has in store for us.
We finally started planning for our garden. Strawberries and “salad stuff” are the most important “crops” to my oldest daughter.
We’ve gone on some family walks… hoping to see buds on the trees.
We’ve had several trips to the zoo.
Planning for summer with kids can be loads of fun. We started making our summer “bucket” list.
My daughter has been so anxious for summer.
She’s excited for our regular trips to the lake but she’s also eager for garage sales (she’s been saving her money), trips to the farmer’s market, she has big plans to make a lemonade stand, and we’ve got plans to do a living room camp-out (tent, air mattress, sleeping bags, microwave s’mores, and all)!
Are you excited for summer? What preparations have you been making?
This sounds great! I had my first picnic this week and am hoping for many more + tandem bike rides with the boyfriend and perhaps some small trip somewhere.. we’ll see ;) Love your bucket list idea!
I am excited for summer. I am going to Florida in June to spend 17 days with my dad. He will be turning 90 and we are having a family dinner. I am also flying my children to Florida for the party. Should be fun. We all use to live in Chicago 25 years ago. My father and my sister with her family all live in Florida now. It will be a nice family reunion. I also go to Mammoth Lakes for a week in July. No garden but I have a lovely tomato plant! Sounds like you have some awesome things planned. Enjoy!
This spring has been a but yucky and I’m anxiously awaiting summer. We’ ve been put the finishing touches on our bucket list and it will be up and ready on Tuesday.
You have a bucket for your bucket list. That is a great visual and tactile idea for the little ones.
Yes and no. This will be the first summer our oldest has an official “summer vacation” and planning for that has been a bear! I am looking forward to the warm weather and neighborhood cookouts. Those make for some great memories!
So excited for summer here! Last summer we didn’t really make any plans, and I think that’s how the summer sort of flew by us and we didn’t end up doing a lot of the things we wanted to. This year I’m loving the idea of sitting down with the kids and actually making a list!
I LOVE your ‘bucket list’!!!! What a wonderful idea – that I just might snitch from you!!!
I hope to do some traveling because the weather and Thomas’ job haven’t allowed for much so far, and there’s SO MUCH to do and see!!! I’ll just be glad not to have to get up early for a couple of months too, lol!
Love your bucket list bucket! How cute! I ought to do that too! Where about do you live (or is that confidential information?) :) I live in cold country—Utah, but we have really gotten lovely weather lately!
I’m with your daughter on the garage sales!! The first hint of warm weather has me looking for them and I think we’re going to be having one at our house in the next couple of weeks. We usually wait until closer to the fall but I think it’s better to get an earlier one in and then another later on. Lord knows we have lots of great stuff just sitting around and not being used. :) Happy weekend to you!!
~ Wendy
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I love this collection of photos! Especially the first one! This sort of thing can be seen in my home just about everyday. I swear we could switch places and our kids would never know! (Well, you know what I mean!) And I love that the bucket list is an actual bucket! clever!
Yes. Lots and lots of plans for this summer even though just last month I told my husband “I’m going to take it easy this summer, I promise.” Yeah.Right. I mean, I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t have a bajillion brilliant (not really) ideas, right? So, I made a new summer schedule for the kids, myself, and a loose lesson plan outline, and a new chore chart, and summer goals, reading list, etc.
Seriously, Sofia? *smh at myself* ;0