During the school year, with all three kids gone for almost seven hours a day, I established a (sort of) routine to my days and I'm a little nervous that I'll become a disorganized, cranky mom when "my" daytime hours become "our" daytime hours.
So I created an activity list for the first two weeks of summer vacation (we'll be out of town the third week).
I'm often overly ambitious when I create lists of any sort, so I tried to keep this year's pretty mellow - leaving room for a lot of lazy days at the pool, but still assuring that we all wake up with something to look forward to.
Each activity will be a surprise for the kids - just like the Countdown to Christmas, they'll open a special envelope every morning.
This is my first year trying something like this, so we'll see how it works. Has anyone else succeeded at something similar?
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Day 1 (Sat) - Host a sleepover with your cousins
Day 2 (Sun) - Make lemonade (yes, with real lemons because F loves real lemon lemonade)
Day 3 (Mon) - Spend a day at the beach (Flag Ponds)
Day 4 (Tues) - Go to a movie
Day 5 (Wed) - Make popsicles
Day 6 (Thurs) - If you go to an art museum with me (the Hirschhorn), I'll take you to Menchies for ice cream
Day 7 (Fri) - Spend a morning at the zoo OR hiking at Potomac Overlook Park
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Day 8 (Sat) - Make ice cream (if Dad can find the ice cream maker :)
Day 9 (Sun) - Family picnic at Rocky Run
Day 10 (Mon) - Tie-Dye t-shirts
Day 11 (Tues) - Watch a movie in the planetarium at the Air & Space museum OR an Imax film at the Natural History Museum
Day 12 (Wed) - Lunch with Dan downtown
Day 13 (Thurs) - Go to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Day 14 (Fri) - Meet Dan after work for a picnic at Hains Point or Yards Park
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Day 15 (Sat) - Host a sleepover to say goodbye to your friends
Day 16 (Sun) - Leave for Asheville, NC; give kids the Book of Questions for the car ride
We do a summer fun list each year, but it is WAY less specific. Ours is just a giant list (water balloon fight, roller coaster, day at the beach, make pie, etc...). Then we check stuff on when we do it. The kids love it, we actually have to make ours this week! Ahh - summer!
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