Summer: Fun??

So we've reached, or maybe passed, that midpoint of the summer. The trips are over, the baseball is over, now it's time to embrace the "lazy days" of summer. This is a tricky thing with 2 energetic children. My idea of lazy is sleeping in, reading, lingering over a cup of coffee, and then more reading. Ok, a few house chores maybe like laundry and emptying the dishwasher. But then it's back to reading or surfing the 'net.

My children have a similar idea which goes something like this: sleep in, watch tv, ask mom to make them some breakfast, watch more tv, play on the computer, ask mom to make them some lunch...well you get the idea. {Here is the disclaimer part: They normally watch very little tv, so it's a treat fo them. And yes, they do also read, one more willingly than the other } On some days when the weather isn't around 9,000 degrees, they will go outside. For awhile. Til they start to fight with each other. Then one comes in and starts to complain about the other. Is it time for school to start yet????

It's that ansty feeling of what to do, knowing full well there are plenty of things to do, just no motivation to do them. You know, organize the pantry, clean out those closets, that type of fun stuff. But really, with all this time we have, why do today what we can put off until tomorrow, right?

So what I've discovered these days is that it is better to have a plan for the day. Something for us all to look forward to. Somewhere either wet or air-conditioned for us to have fun. The free bowling has been a big hit and we have plans to visit a friend's pool tomorrow. So instead of thinking of all those things that need to get done (think closets) we need to think of all those things we want to do with the days of summer we have left. That way we can say we had lots of summer fun.