Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Tuesday Ten - Things I'm Looking Forward to This Summer

This is my girls' last week of school.  The year has just flown by.  As the girls get older, each year gets busier and busier.  This year, I am more than ready for summer vacation, so I thought I would make this Tuesday Ten all about Summer Vacation!!


The Golden Spoons


TEN THINGS I'M LOOKING FROWARD TO THIS SUMMER

1.  No schedules - The girls have a few camps scattered here and there, but, for the most part, we are free and easy going.  There are no after school activities.  We don't have to have dinner at a certain time each evening in order to make it somewhere else on time.  Bedtime is flexible.  Everything is just more relaxed.
2.  Sleeping In - I've admitted before that My Kids Are Sleepers and, coinciding with the whole no schedules thing, we ALL get to sleep in most days during the summer.  It's blissful, really!
3.  The beach - When I married into this family, I also married into the tradition of spending a week at the beach every summer with my husband's family.  To some, this may sound torturous, but I love it.  I get along great with his family and I love the beach.  We always rent a big house together and have a great time.
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4.  No packing lunches - During the school year, packing lunches and planning meals is the bane of my existence.  My three girls are all picky, but in different ways which makes packing lunches a scientific/mathematical equation that even Sheldon Cooper couldn't decipher!  I'm so glad I'll get a break from at least the packing lunches part of that for 3 whole months!!!!  Yippeeeee!!!

5.  Hanging out with friends - We are fortunate to have a pool at our house, so ours is the hang out spot in the summer.  We have friends over often.  The kids get to splash in the pool while the parents get to sit back and relax!
6.  Time to visit with family - My parents and older brother only live about two hours away, but with crazy schedules from September to May, it is hard to find time to get together.  The summer gives us time to see each other more often.  My brother and his wife have three kids about the same ages as mine, so the cousins always have fun together and I enjoy visiting with my brother, my sister-in-law, and my parents!
7.  The mountains - Often, those times visiting with my family are spent, at least in part, in the mountains.  I grew up going to the mountains of NC, so I find something very comforting in going back there and I am glad to share it with my girls, too.  There's just nothing quite like a day in Blowing Rock!
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8.  Grilling - I am not the griller at my house.  That would be my hubby.  I love when he can grill, though, because it means I am only partially responsible for dinner and the clean up afterwards! ;-)
9.  Thunderstorms - Given the recent severe weather in Oklahoma, I hesitated to put this one on the list.   Fortunately, we don't get much severe weather here - nothing like the terrible tornadoes they have in the midwest. It's usually just your run-of-the-mill thunderstorm.  I just love to cuddle up and watch the lightning flashes and listen to the rain and thunder.   
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10.  Spending Time with my Girls - I'm sure that, at times, we will drive each other crazy and, by August, I will probably be counting down the days until they go back to school.  But, right now, I am looking forward to just hanging put with my girls this summer.  I hoping to make a summer bucket list with them soon.  It probably won't have 100 things on it like some do - maybe just 25-30 - but it will give us something to accomplish together and something to work on when we they get bored!

So what are you looking forward to this summer???  What's on your summer bucket list??

Next Week's Topic: Ten Thing I Learned From My Dad 
(Remember, Father's Day is June 16!!!)

22 comments:

The Dose of Reality said...

Sounds like you have a fun summer planned! We are headed to Blowing Rock in a couple weeks! :) I definitely do not miss packing lunches either...it gets so old! Stopping by from SITS.-Ashley

Tamara Bowman said...

I will definitely not miss packing lunches and running late to preschool dropoff. I have a feeling the luxury of being late will be lost once we get to grade school but for now it's been ok. I look forward to the beach and summer travel. I love summer so much it's almost a miracle that I survive New England winters every year..

midget38 said...

I am looking forward to all of these things too! Thanks for sharing, Lisa! http://gettingliteral.com/?p=558

Martha said...

We still have four more weeks of school!!! FOUR!!! It's so awful and so mean that it makes me sad just thinking about it. But whenever summer does begin, I'll be so happy about the lack of schedule and no longer making lunches.


Happy summer to you!

Lisa @ The Golden Spoons said...

Thanks for visiting!! Hope you'll come again!

Lisa @ The Golden Spoons said...

Oh my, Martha! Four more weeks?!?!?! That is just cruel!!! All I can say is hang in there!

Janine Huldie said...

I love summer and seriously looking forward to the pool, beach, barbecuing and just being outdoors as much as we can, too!! :)

Lisa @ The Golden Spoons said...

Aww, Karen! I'm am definitely not there yet as my oldest is only 10, but I'm sure that must be hard. I hope you can still enjoy your summer and enjoy spending time with your son before he heads off to college!

Lisa @ The Golden Spoons said...

All sounds good to me! :-)

Stephanie Sprenger said...

I LOVE that list! I am jealous of a few things, as I am still teaching a few classes each week this summer and we have camp and childcare a few days each week, thus extending our harried morning rush into the summer, complete with lunch packing. :( Oh, well, we will have at least 4 days a week that are relaxing, which is better than none! I love the lazy pace of summer, love going up to the mountains (in CO!) and think that your beach vaca with the family sounds like heaven. Sigh. And the thunderstorms. OK, that post put me in a great mood- thanks! :D

Evil Joy said...

I love your list!!!!!! Summer 'starts' here a week from today......

Lisa @ The Golden Spoons said...

Thanks!! We've got two more days - I think I can, I think I can . . . .

Considerer said...

The beach and the pool sound like they'd be my favourite things on your list. I'm looking forward to getting a job and being a normal, responsible, wage-earning adult again rather than a skivey student.

Norine Dworkin said...

Stopping by from the Tattler Hop! Love this list. A week at the beach sounds fabulous. I'm looking forward to finishing my book proposal ... and getting my ass kicked at Stratego by my 7 yr old! -- Norine of Science of Parenthood

AnotherCleanSlate said...

And the clean up after grilling is so minimal! Yay for summer!

Roshni Aamom said...

Summer time is certainly so very relaxing!! Enjoy!

Lisa @ The Golden Spoons said...

Good luck with that job!!

Lisa @ The Golden Spoons said...

Wow - a book proposal! Good luck!!! Good Luck with Stratego, too!

Lisa @ The Golden Spoons said...

YES! Yay!

Lisa @ The Golden Spoons said...

The preschooll my girls went to was nut free which made packing lunches even harder! Yay for pb&j!

Lisa @ The Golden Spoons said...

Thanks!

Fellis2 said...

I love your ten things. We have recently started spending a week at the beach each summer but this was the first year we took my in-laws with us. I was really nervous about having them go but it turned out to be real blessing. I hope we can turn it into a yearly thing with them.

I also love you idea about a summer bucket list. I think we may just have to do that.

Stopping by from Tattler Thursday feliciasreddoorlife.blogspot.com

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