Today is the last day of school for my kiddos. I know it sounds cliche, but I can hardly beieve the school year is over again! Now I have an eigth grader and a fifth grader! Where does the time go?
May and June have been a whirlwind of dance recitals, soccer games, karate lessons, band and orchestra concerts, piano recitals, graduation parties, and a wedding. Whew! We finally got a chance to sit down last night and make our Summer Bucket List--you know, the list of things we want to do this summer. The list has way more than 10 things on it, but my personal bucket list has about ten, so I thought I'd share those:
1. Catch up on school memory books for both girls.
2. Clean out closets and donate stuff to church's resale store.
3. Redo our family meal plans with more summer-type recipes.
4. Sew a throw-sized quilt for my daughter.
5. Read 10 non-fiction books.
6. Train for a 5K mud run in October.
7. Do a family Bible study.
8. Make pudding pops like my mom used to make.
9. Get more food from the Farmer's market.
10. Develop new items for my craft business.
How does that sound? Our family bucket list is much longer and has more fun things on it, like going to a water park, raising caterpillars, making jam, doing tie dye shirts, making a reading fort, and helping my kids sew quilt tops. There's a lot more too, but those are some of the things. Today I'm trying to come up with a cute way to display our list. Doing some looking on Pinterest...fun!
Do you have a summer bucket list?
Oh, and, here's 10 non-fiction books I want to read this summer:
1. Running for Mortals by John Bingham and Jenny Hadfield.
2. Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller.
3. Self Talk, Soul Talk by Jennifer Rothschild.
4. Unsinkable by Abby Sunderland.
5. Lord, I Just Want to be Happy by Leslie Vernick.
6. Cleaning House by Kay Wills Wyma.
7. Breaking Free by Beth Moore.
8. I Thought it Was Just me, (But it Isn't) by Brene Brown.
9. Eating the Moment by Pavel G. Somov
10. Life is Hard, Food is Easy by Linda Spangle.
