Our
first week of summer vacation was fantastic!
We did a lot too! Maybe a little
too much.
Monday – we went to the Library and the girls signed up for the Summer
Reading Program. It is a fun program
that allows children to earn prizes for an allotted amount of time spent
reading each day. They picked out two
books a piece to get started with. Then
we went to the $ store for a little budget minded spending, which we kept to a minimum. We hurried home to grab our bikes for a ride
to the park and a picnic lunch. We even
took our library books and read a little.
Tuesday – we spent most of the morning baking banana, zucchini and
whole wheat breads. Made enough for a
couple of weeks. Then off to the park
again and to eat our lunch. We didn’t
stay long because a big storm blew in and it started to rain. We finished off the afternoon watching old
episodes of the Carol Burnett Show on YouTube.
The girls loved it!
Wednesday – We worked out in the yard and cleaned
up the mess from the storm on Tuesday.
Then rode our bikes to the park again and had another picnic. The girls are really enjoying this part of
our day. When we got home we started a
potholder project. I’ll post more on
this later. It literally took up the
remainder of our day and ran into the evening, but I had so much fun giving
them my first sewing lesson.
Thursday – We started out early and headed to
Home Depot to pick up some supplies we need for a couple of upcoming projects,
including re-staining the deck. Then off
to the grocery store to re-stock our produce.
We’ve gone through salad fixings and fresh fruit like crazy lately. We went to the park once again and ate our
lunch. We stayed about an hour as the girls
were anxious to get back to make some ice cream and finish the potholder
project. Once that was done we cleaned
up our sewing mess and ran the vacuum cleaner – lots of threads! I topped off the day with an hour long Neighborhood
Association meeting.
Friday – the girls read after breakfast before I kicked them
outside to mow the lawn. They are both little
bookworms. After that we headed outside
to start another project for Christmas.
I’ll post about this one later on as well and I am excited about it. We ate our lunch outside in the yard. The weather was beautiful. After bottling our latest batch of beer we finished
planting our herb garden and some additional pots. It feels good to have all our planting
complete. We even topped it off with a
fire in our chiminea and girl talk.
All
week long I’ve been on stand-by for jury duty so our daily plans have been
tenuous. Every evening I’ve called in
and was told to “call back tomorrow”. I
was hopeful, for once, not to have to serve and lucked out this time. I’ve been pulled to serve every time I’ve
been summoned so this time I caught a break.
Every night when I called in the girls sat with their fingers crossed
that they would say no. I think they’ve
been having way too much fun with their old mom.
We’ve
also enjoyed some terrific meals and snacks this week. Note to self – DO NOT feed my children Ding
Dongs. They instantly turn into one.
So now,
today we rest. I’m a little pooped.
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