June/July and summer fun when there is still work to do....

I got the BEST random sales email yesterday from a local coffee shop. The tag line was CHEERS TO A MONTH OF PURE SUMMER FUN, and that is exactly what July is! No school! At ALL! Anytime this month. ALL FUN. 

SuchI a good reframe.

Especially for me. Especially right now. I love summer and everything about it AND ALSO my summer class ramps up this week and I have two adjunct online sections this term-- I do have work to do in the midst of all the fun. And yet! The kids are staring at a rolling wave of pool days and friend hangs and movie nights, which is of course, exactly what I want for them. I just need to figure out how to balance all the fun and all of the things I have to do.

So, with that in mind, here's a little mini review of my summer so far

Swim lesson session one was a raging success-- both the timing (right before the pool opens for open swim and in the sort of middle of dance driving, which has made Coop really step up as a big bro) and the lessons themselves. Minnie passed level 3 and is ready for level 4-- stroke refinement, She has strokes to refine!

JUNE

✅Run, lift weights, and do yoga before 7:30am: THIS WAS SO GOOD YOU GUYS SO GOOD.

✅Get dressed in real clothes every day: ONLY 1 FAIL and it was because we spent the whole day in the pool, so I put these running clothes ion over my suit

🟡Read my Book of the Month books that have been hanging around: As of this writing, I have read THREE of the FOUR but I also ordered one for July

🟡Take a quick walk after every meal: Extending this one because I mostly forgot about it after the first week of June (still walked for 60 minutes every day, so I'm not totally slacking.

🟡Read all the random Amazon First Reads kindle books I have waiting for me on my Kindle before I buy new books: My library holds have been amazing, so I have not read this OR bought new books.

❌Work outside the house 2 days a week: NOPE NOPE NOPE. This month??

✅Water my gardens: YESSSSSS

✅ Attend 3 dressy events and buy ZERO DRESSES for me OR the girls. DID IT! Thanks to our niece for the clutch dress loan for D.

JULY

1. Visit Eau Claire

2. Have a cheesy family 4th of July celly with a Jazzminton tourney

3. 2 date nights OUT OF THE HOUSE (driveway fires do not count, but grocery shopping together might)

4. Keep exercising by 7:30am and getting dressed for the day (pool clothes count)

5. Maximize pool days/ minimize TANNING. I get so tan so fast with sunscreen. Current strategy:

6. Stay on top of all deadlines (work, personal, volunteer-- THERE ARE MANY BALLS IN THE AIR)

7. Master my summer schedule by July 9th (because it changes a bit in August, but there's no way I can call myself a master before then)

8. Keep the dinner bowl menu train on the tracks

9. Renew my commitment to my daily planer-- stuff is falling through the cracks, and I am still not motivated to check in. I need to go back to making a nightly to-do list for the next day. My nights have just skewed so late and I have been getting up so early and bah.

10. EMAIL MADNESS-- fix it!