Thinking Ahead to Summer

It's a dreary spring day, but I have summer on the brain.  In fact, we've already booked summer camps and are working on all the forms; each has two weeks of day camp at different places.  Sis has horseback riding camp and animal camp at a nature center; Bud has science camp at a museum and Minecraft camp.  They're going different weeks, so each will have time home alone with me.  

So what to do with the other weeks, around six in all for each child?  No doubt Gommie will come for a visit; otherwise, we have no travel plans.  Lots of R&R at home.  Not sure where I'll be physically, but I'm not including any really physical excursions.  I'm sure we'll adapt the list as the time comes.

And here are some ideas of what we'll do (* indicate family weekend outings):

1. Party/activity in honor of Aunt Sis
2. Go swimming at Y with friends
3. Meet friends at ice rink
4. *Attend town festival in June/volunteer at historic house
5. *Beach trip in city
6. *Putt-putt golf
7. *Baseball game
8. Eat Dole Whip
9. Make ice cream
10. Designate a family summer read (Redwall?)
11. Go to outdoor concert
12. Have a barbecue (after bricking fire pit)
13. Raise butterflies
14. Have a lemonade stand (cookies for cancer?)
15. Picnic
16. Mario kart-athon
17. Movie night
18. Old tv show marathon (ours or theirs)
19. Play in sprinkler
20. *Go to culture festival (Scottish, Irish, Greek, etc.)
21. *Go to Renaissance festival
22. *Go to zoo
23. Stargazing at observatory
24. *Biking
25. Celebrate 4th of July
26. Celebrate Solstice
27. Celebrate Mama's birthday
28. Birthday party for kids
29. *Go to nature center
30. *Go to aquarium
31. *Go to bird festvial
32. Try a new craft/art project
33. Decorate chalkboard for summer
34. Learn to cook favorite meal
35. Make ice cube candles
36. Activity kit day
37. Host a sleepover with friends.  
38. Learn how to clean bathrooms.
39. Learn how to work washer/dryer
40. Make popsicles.
41. Hang pictures.
42. Make soap


Learn a new game
*Go letterboxing or geocaching locally
Attend friends' Friday Night Dance Party
Start afternoon tea party tradition
Learn some words in Scottish Gaelic for trip to Scotland
Purge and donate toys and books
Pajamas day
No electricity day
Do a 1000 piece puzzle
Kite flying
Wash car
Buy new couches?
Community service project (volunteer with cats?)
Do nothing special

As I write this, I'm thinking of all the other things we want to do at other times, either other seasons or later: Comic Con, WNBA game, NY Ren Faire, Sheffield or Thimble Island boat cruise, Eagle boat cruise, seal watching cruise, Little Red Lighthouse day, Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival, visiting Gillette Castle, climbing to tower lookout at Sleeping Giant Park, Roger Williams Zoo in Providence, revisit Dinosaur State Park, attend holiday programs Hudson River Valley house museums, sleepover at AMNH, and bigger trips to Quebec City, DC for pandas, Williamsburg, Philadelphia, etc.