Wernet as crazy as we seem: On the first day of summer vacation

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

On the first day of summer vacation

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.