Sometime during my girl Kelsey ’s grade school age , she and I started a little oddment - of - the - school - twelvemonth tradition call the Summer Fun List .
To kick off summer vacation , we would sit together at the computer and brainstorm a to - do inclination of gratifying summer activities . We ’d each take routine dreaming up peradventure 25 - 30 ideas , type each in a fun , unlike font .
After it was eat up , we tape the listing in a prominent piazza where we could concern to it often and check off the activities we ’d done .
We seldom accomplished every single thing we ’d listed , but no matter — looking back at the pen - struck lean when school started in September helped us remember just how wondrous and action at law - packed our summer had been .
What sort of thing were on the list ? All kind , really , and of row it changed each class , although some favorites reappear on a regular basis . We tried to balance free bodily process ( i.e. pick daisies ) with one that would be money ( visualise a summertime flick ) , simple pleasure ( blow bubbles ) with the more complex ( build a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree house ) , small dream ( go to the beach ) with the big ( take a trip to France ) .
Yesterday , follow an good afternoon cram with farm chores , I creep into our rainbow - color knoll for the first meter this summer . As I swung and gaze at the sky , it of a sudden occurred to me that Kelsey and I had n’t made our Summer Fun Lists during her last few years of high schooltime .
This year I thought about it , and then promptly leave again as her graduation swept us into summer in a crazy hurry . possibly she ’s get down too previous for such thing anyway , I thought .
And then I thought , Swinging in this knoll is really fun , and made a small genial check - mark . Maybe we ’re never too old for a Summer Fun List .
Here ’s a sampling from our retiring lists to give you some ideas , in example you ’d wish to try making one with your nestling . It ’s unquestionably not too later — we still have plenty of summer left to go !
1 . Pick blackberries.2 . Go to the zoo.3 . Take a wheel ride on the rail trail.4 . Plant an herb garden.5 . Visit the husbandman ’s market.6 . Go to the county fair.7 . Make a rock and cement Bronx cheer bath.8 . Go swimming ( or run through the sprinkler).9 . Hike to Sheep Lake.10 . Read a good summer Word of God ( or two or three or … )
~ Cherie
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