I love summer.
I love winter, too. But summer is way hotter.
Unfortunately, it’s not conducive to blogging. The kids are home all day. They either need entertaining or forced encouraged to clean something. They magically get along when they’re told to clean. It’s like a miracle.
Then there’s traveling. We don’t go far. Basically, around the block. Though we did make it to the beach yesterday.
Of course, we got home a bit late and after a day of sun, sand, surf, and supper, blogging didn’t make the to do list.
Then there’s the later than usual bedtime every night because “It’s still light out!” and “My friends get to stay up until dark!” By the time they’re finally asleep all I have left is to watch as many Game of Thrones episodes we can fit in.
Which is usually one.
There’s also baseball. It’s going to take up more time than a Lord of the Rings extended version trilogy marathon. Actually, that’s about the same length as just one game. This year, however, I have stepped into the role of Coach for Crash’s team. Yes, I’m a Coach Daddy. Except for baseball. I’ve coached soccer and wrestling and golf. This is my first stint at baseball. So far, so good. We haven’t lost! We won one and tied one. We have three games next week. Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. So we’ll be spending a good portion of our summer on the field of dreams.
The boys have been begging to go camping. I love camping and used to camp frequently. I’ve never taken along two rambunctious kids. I would love to teach them what I know about camping and the wilderness and the night sky without light pollution and about cheese filled crust pizza (but not while camping). There are a few day trips we’d like to take and trip to visit DW’s brother and sister-in-law. The boys love playing with their cousins.
I’ll be Tweeting, Instagramming and Facebook our adventures so feel free to follow along. What will you be doing this summer?
Sorry, South-of-the-Equatorians, what will you be doing this winter?
We do have snow up in the highlands. The snow is wet snow so quite wet and heavy. We tend to stay in for Winter but there are things on like the theatre My Fair Lady is showing and Winter night market etc. Our art gallery have the Winter Master collection. This year it’s Van Gogh. Then there’s the footy if you like football. Plenty to do if one wants to.
We’ll have to head out when we’ve got our exchange student with us to show her some of Melbourne.
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Sounds like fun! Wet snow is great for snowballs and snowmen and igloos. It’s the worst for shoveling. Like your outlook. If you want to do something, you’ll find something to do 🙂
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Yep sounds like my summer! I’m planning on taking my two young boys away camping for the first time this year and really looking forward to it!
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Good luck and have fun! You’ll have to let me know how they fair. I’m telling mine that if they don’t behave, bears will steal them in the night 🙂
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You’ve got a busy busy summer schedule! It’ll keep the boys nicely occupied. And you. 😊
You’ll just have to make the boys clean all the time while at it! I bet they enjoy the cleaning and would love to clean more. 😆
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Busy is right! Hopefully not so busy that we go crazy, but busy enough to keep us from getting bored and going crazy 🙂
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I don’t know which is the lesser evil! Bored or going crazy busy! LOL
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Crazy busy is the lesser evil. At least you’re doing stuff when you’re crazy busy. 🙂
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hmmmm…i’m on the fence with this one because sometimes, I just don’t want to be doing stuff. I just want to zone out! And the kids wouldn’t let me.
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Some down time would be ideal. Rest and recover 🙂
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I used to get correspondence courses to take during summer. Mornings were spent filling out the questionnaires and diagrams. Once, when I got an intricate geometry problem right in the correspondence course, I must have memorized it, because I got the same problem for the winter final in school. Blew my math teacher’s mind. So I say, give ’em math. Can’t hurt. (Wait, it does hurt. Just remembering.)
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They have 2 teachers for parents, they’ll be doing math and reading and writing through the summer 😀 It doesn’t hurt as much now as it would in the future if they didn’t do it.
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It’s funny — I usually think when summer rolls around that I’ll catch up a bit on the blogging, but I guess my brain forgets the part where I’ll be doing the kid stuff nonstop!
Sounds like a busy summer ahead. Good luck with baseball! LM has one month of vacation left until school starts. We plan to hit up the beach one more time, do another summer camp, their classes, and hopefully Carowinds. We saw two movies last week — the new Spiderman and Pirates of the Caribbean, which was fun.
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Exactly. I think I’ll have all day to get everything done and I end playing referee all day or we go places. Or it’s too hot. Pirates of Caribbean looked good. I’d like to see that one. A friend has invited us to their pool. WHOOO HOOO!!! 😀
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I loved it, it wouldn’t matter how poorly written it was (not that it was), watching Johnny Depp do his drunken run is worth the price of admission every time.
Nice, have fun! We finally got our pool open last week. Feels like a sauna, but fun!
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Johnny Depp does pirate outstandingly.
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Sounds like a crazy busy schedule but more importantly memories in the making. As my son is only 14-months old, our schedule isn’t this busy yet but part of me can’t wait.
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You, sir, are plenty busy with a 14 month old. Good luck keeping up with him! You’re time will come. Actually, there is much you can do (i.e. camping) with him.
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We do a lot already. We did swim lesson all spring. We have gone camping and will again this fall. We travel a lot. Any time with him is awesome!
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Wicked. So now when he’s older he’ll be prepared and ready and excited to all do that!
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Yikes, busy! But busy is happy, usually. Lots of memory making, right? Keep taking photos!
I too am missing the downtime I had – just twice a week for about 2h while one was in school and the other was napping. It is hard for me to get blogging done, too. This upcoming weekend is our third traveling weekend in a row, so I’m already exhausted. I plan on visiting the in-laws pool a lot to cool down!!! And jumping on our trampoline, sweating at the park, getting dripped on by our popsicles … you know the drill!
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