Summer List Revisited.

Well, it is official - Summer is over. Boy that went fast didn't it? I look back and in a blink it was gone. We spent the summer alternating between the pool and beach,

nestled in between vacations, and interspersed with our good friends.

There was even a bit of time set aside for relaxing...

Our summer list was long and full off good ideas. We didn't get to everything but did manage to play with most of the ideas on here. Here it is...

50(ish) SUMMER THINGS...

make pinwheels
tie dye shirts
make rain sticks
make ribbon streamers
paint pet rocks
make a pinata for Alec's birthday
make goo-blec or homemade playdoh with sparkles in it
make plant pot wind chimes
create mini-me art work
work on a family summer scrapbook
have and host game night
play with sprinklers, slip & slide, & squirt guns
have a water balloon fight
fly kites
ride bikes - hopefully get Alec's training wheels off
bake colorburst cupcakes
build a lego table
play with sidewalk chalk
have field day games
go to the free movie festival
go bowling
learn to swim without swimmies (Alec that is)
join the summer reading program at the library
play tennis & rqt. ball
visit cape may
visit the baltimore planetarium, imax and science center
ride go carts
go to frontier town or killians water parks
celebrate a 5-year birthday
read my camera manual again
have a scrapbooking day/evening
go golfing
build a trellis planter
finish the kitchen
finish the outside of the house
go to bush gardens or water country

have a "going to kindergarten" celebration (soon to happen)
visit with friends
participate in muffin-tin-monday
make ice cream & have a marble slab party
break out the sewing machine and make a camera strap and cloth napkins
learn elements (preferably before my class starts)
celebrate our 7-year anniversary
start practicing with bento lunches
make a book list for paperback swap
have play dates
Go Jet Skiing

Not too bad! It was fun making the list and fun crossing things off as we did them - with no obligation at all to get to everything.

I am sorry to see summer go but fall in MD is my absolute favorite time of year and I am looking forward to what is coming down the pipeline. This week Kindergarten starts and I am sure it will add it's own excitement and complexities to the coming months. Sayonara Summer. I welcome the next four months with open arms.