It sort of feels like this summer picked right up where last summer left off. Here are just a few of the things we did, many before 9:00 a.m.
- Learned to program Eddie's new robot mouse and designed popsicle stick mazes for him to go through.
- Built a million things out of Magformers.
- Colored pictures.
- Mediated no fewer than 50 silly arguments as the kids figured out how to spend a whole day at home together.
- Played with the PJ Masks figurines. Pretended we were PJ Masks characters and fought crime in the nighttime.
- Played on the swingsets for ages.
- Had a Nerf gun fight.
- Made breakfast, cleaned the kitchen, made snacks, cleaned the kitchen, made lunch, cleaned the kitchen. I spent a lot of time in the kitchen.
- Tackled the laundry mountain in our closet.
- Took a walk/bike ride.
- Went to the resale shop, the doctors office to pick up immunization records, and Meijer--gloriously ALONE because the girls stayed with the little kids while they rested.
- Had a water balloon fight.
- Played catch and packed up the softball and baseball gear, not to be put away again until late July.
- Went to the girls' first softball practice and played at the school playground..
- Went for another walk. By the end of the day, I was tired in a completely different way than last-week-of-school tired. I walked upward of 21,500 steps.
[Somehow, the kids still managed to watch too much TV, so Day 2 included making their summer want-to-do lists and engaging in conversation about reasonable screen limits.]
Thus began the Wernets' summer break, bringing with it a steady decline into feral living in which lake swimming and running through the sprinkler count as bathing, bug spray and sunscreen run in our veins, and Annie basically becomes nocturnal.
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DJ's maze. He figured out how to code the mouse faster than I did! |
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Annie's creation, obviously. |
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Catboy crashed while I made dinner. |
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A new playground for us! |
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Mary's picture. Thankful I dug through the marker drawer to find the washable ones. |
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