Oh, do I love summer!
The relaxed mornings!
The pool!
The light reads by my favorite, most reliable authors!
Minnie and I put together a light summer structure that we are super excited about since we are continuing to be camp-and-childcare-free.* Here's what we got:
Make it Monday (baking or crafts, weather dependent)
New park Tuesday
Sweet treat Wednesday (stole this years ago from Kelsey Wharton)
Library Thursday (this one is mainly for me because I need a regular day f I am actually going to read my books).
Fun Fun Friday
Here's Minnie's Friday bag of destiny:
Celebrations:
We have 8th grade promotion, high school graduation, our 15 year house-iversary, our 21st anniversary, Harry's 20th, and Minnie's 6th-- I want to make them all special and memorable. We will also celebrate TWO college move-ins this summer and dance and dive nationals season. Phew!!
Fitness:
Increase my daily run from 30 minutes to 40
Take a barre class
Take a hot yoga class
Household:
Trade out some of my daily cleaning products for less toxic versions. I will still use bleach spray in the bathrooms when they need it, but my everyday wipe-down cleaner could be something gentle not lemon bleach-free Clorox, for example, that makes me cough and cannot possibly be good for us.
Use baking soda and a toothbrush to clean the sink when I am putting the kitchen to bed
Personal/professional development:
Work on an intentional email check in routine instead of the avoid and dig out shuffle I have going on now
Use my planner every day
Write in my one-sentence journal every day-ish instead of doing a binge
Do 2 no-spend days a week
Observe Christmas (shopping) in July
Fun:
Visit our town's James Beard nominated bar
Go out to dinner with Ben
Order pizza at the pool
Drink Tito's and lemonade by the pool (literally does not feel like summer until I do this)
Cultivate a yes-and mentality as default summer mom mode
Do a Girls rewatch while I lift weights (this show is freaking hilarious now that I am basically Hannah's parents).
*Cooper and Dorothy both have diving from 10-11:30. Then Cooper dives again from 2-5. Plus Dorothy has 12-ish hours of dance a week. And Cooper works at the pool's front desk in his off time-- they are SO BUSY that they really don't have time for anything else. Sports ARE their "childcare" and they are both old enough to BE my childcare for Minnie, so this is not the flex it used to be.
This sounds FUN!!! I actually want to hear more about this Fun Friday. Maybe a DITL post???
ReplyDeleteFun Fun Friday better live up to its expectations. I kind of hope it's mostly napping and sitting in the sun, but I suspect that's not Fun Fun to Minnie.
ReplyDeleteI am slightly exhausted thinking about your summer, but you definitely have a lot more energy than I do so here's to a FUN, MAGICAL SUMMER!
ReplyDelete*waves* I'm here for most of the summer, so if you're up this way and want to co-caffeinate, lmk.
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