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Allegra
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I don’t really have any questions, but I just want to say, I’M SO STOKED ABOUT THIS SUMMER! (which, coincidentally started today in my unique school district!)
From now until the second week of August, I intend to educate my children in the fashion similar to that of Auntie Mame. (Maybe a little cleaner language, since they’re 4 and 2.)
We are going everywhere from the public library to concerts, picnics, creekbeds, Silver Dollar City, carnivals, museums, gardens, waterparks, canyons, rivers, forests, mountains, caves, cathedrals, chocolate factories, zoos, Wisconsin Dells, train yards, ampitheaters, and all the while devoting a significant amount of time to watching PBS.
We will grow our own zucchini and live on salt water taffy. We will finger paint and side walk chalk. We will read all day when it rains. We will forget what time is bedtime and embarrass ourselves with plaque-y teeth at our dentist appointments. (which we will also do this summer)
Our floors will be covered with wet towels, dry play-doh, and so much sand! When it get’s too freaking hot out to get into the car, we will sleep in and eat Cheerios out of the box for lunch. We will spent the mornings drinking coffee on the patio while the kids play in the same clothes they fell asleep in the night before.
We will attend patriotic parades with sunscreen in our eyes and eat Ted Drewes frozen custard out of little yellow cartons at 10AM in the morning, even though it’s over-priced and not nearly as good as getting it fresh with hot fudge. (the proceeds go to charity, or something)
We will attempt to catch fish. (but we don’t know how, so we probably wont, and even if we do, we don’t know how to make them edible so we’ll just say ‘sorry’ and put them back.)
We will take photos in front of strange-looking statuary. We will ride dubious-looking carney rides. We will pick a favorite movie and watch it twenty-seven times. We will swim in the public pool, rivers, and lakes. We will go canoeing and pontooning until we are sunburned beyond belief. We will buy incredibly expensive bags of dirt that the kids will wash though to find the same stones they sell five for a buck inside the gift shop. We will fill jars with frogs and fireflies. (Sorry PETA people.)
We will have a very loud argument that will probably disturb neighboring campsites about why after an hour of trying and a half bottle of lighter fluid, we still don’t have the campfire started. We will finally get that fire started and sit around singing the inappropriate version of “The Ship Titantic”. We will spend time together and create memories. We will return to school in August, peeling, bug-bitten, with maybe an impressive scar, and completely off our sleep schedule.
Does anyone have any favorite summer memories to share?
From now until the second week of August, I intend to educate my children in the fashion similar to that of Auntie Mame. (Maybe a little cleaner language, since they’re 4 and 2.)
We are going everywhere from the public library to concerts, picnics, creekbeds, Silver Dollar City, carnivals, museums, gardens, waterparks, canyons, rivers, forests, mountains, caves, cathedrals, chocolate factories, zoos, Wisconsin Dells, train yards, ampitheaters, and all the while devoting a significant amount of time to watching PBS.
We will grow our own zucchini and live on salt water taffy. We will finger paint and side walk chalk. We will read all day when it rains. We will forget what time is bedtime and embarrass ourselves with plaque-y teeth at our dentist appointments. (which we will also do this summer)
Our floors will be covered with wet towels, dry play-doh, and so much sand! When it get’s too freaking hot out to get into the car, we will sleep in and eat Cheerios out of the box for lunch. We will spent the mornings drinking coffee on the patio while the kids play in the same clothes they fell asleep in the night before.
We will attend patriotic parades with sunscreen in our eyes and eat Ted Drewes frozen custard out of little yellow cartons at 10AM in the morning, even though it’s over-priced and not nearly as good as getting it fresh with hot fudge. (the proceeds go to charity, or something)
We will attempt to catch fish. (but we don’t know how, so we probably wont, and even if we do, we don’t know how to make them edible so we’ll just say ‘sorry’ and put them back.)
We will take photos in front of strange-looking statuary. We will ride dubious-looking carney rides. We will pick a favorite movie and watch it twenty-seven times. We will swim in the public pool, rivers, and lakes. We will go canoeing and pontooning until we are sunburned beyond belief. We will buy incredibly expensive bags of dirt that the kids will wash though to find the same stones they sell five for a buck inside the gift shop. We will fill jars with frogs and fireflies. (Sorry PETA people.)
We will have a very loud argument that will probably disturb neighboring campsites about why after an hour of trying and a half bottle of lighter fluid, we still don’t have the campfire started. We will finally get that fire started and sit around singing the inappropriate version of “The Ship Titantic”. We will spend time together and create memories. We will return to school in August, peeling, bug-bitten, with maybe an impressive scar, and completely off our sleep schedule.
Does anyone have any favorite summer memories to share?
