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Both liZ and I feel like we have been running ragged these last couple of months and with summer break beginning this next week I was trying to think about summer goals.
I was thinking about making calendars with an activity to do everyday or a summer “bucket list” or getting bins ready to keep everyone busy.
And then it hit me…..I don’t want to do any of those things this summer, I just want to slow down. Not that there is anything wrong with summer “bucket lists” or planning activities every day–if those are your thing—please, go for it! But I think this summer the one goal is—-to just SLOW DOWN. I know that sounds lame, but I really just want to stay home and let the kids play….and not be in the car for 2 hours a day driving everyone everywhere. I just want a summer to slow down.
I don’t exactly know what summer is going to look like but I am planning to go opposite of my normal-ocd self and just let go and let summer be. I think we all need it.
~Elizabeth
My youngest asked me a few weeks ago. “Can we have one of those park, library, pool, beach, VBS, summers, this year?”. We had a crazy busy, fun but busy, summer last year. At her request we will be taking it back to a ‘old school’ summer break. I am just as excited as them. The part of me that loves to plan and make lists is breaking out in hives. The other half of me is going to enjoy. I hope you do the same!
I love love this idea. I think for our Summer, I will try to have moments of that.
I know with fiddle camp and gymnastics camp (which are just expected now), it won’t be the whole summer, but I will settle for parts!
Good Luck!! Sounds dreamy:)
We have a few of those things too….but on the other weeks, I just want to do nothing 😉 okay maybe the pool and popsicles…but otherwise nothing.
I am totally with you Sherry!!! I think we need it this summer.
I had such a lovely summer last year. At the start of summer break, I brought my sewing machine in to the cottage and lived there most of the summer. Home was only 10 min away for laundry and things. I would get up early, eat breakfast and read out on the dock, then sew for a bit till my cousins got up. Then we would head out on the lake, me in my kayak and they on their stand-up paddle boards. We’d go into our respective houses (next door to one another) for food and have a shared picnic lunch on the lawn while playing board games. Evenings often consisted of taking too many sunset pictures and having bonfires. Many days were spent like this and I felt really lucky to have the opportunity to do that. This January, I bought my first house, just down the road from the cottage 🙂 I often wake up for school and look out at the lake and think, this is real. I actually get to live here. I can’t wait for report cards to be done and summer to start 🙂