After five extra days with my ELA colleagues, my summer finally started last Friday. Now, a week in and I am feeling the summer vibe. Life is good...A lot happens in a week. My overarching summer goals:
-Go with the flow (so far so good)
-Meditate (haven't gotten back to that yet)
-Help boys solve their fights themselves (will most likely involve re-instating meditation)
-Exercise (Lots of successes here, if I only I could stop eating ice cream and drinking beer...By the end of June I'll have hit 20 yoga classes- woo hoo...also started a 30 day 15-minute a day workout challenge...walking a few times in the early mornings)
-read 20 books (slow start on this one)
I'm trying not to focus on my usual "To Do" list, using a bit of reverse psychology on myself. Trying to learning to just have fun. Last summer whizzed by and I was overly-consumed by my writing class. This summer less focus on getting stuff done. I'm trying anyhow. So far I think I've got an even balance going:
Friday
Kindergarten readiness test for Wylie followed by play time at Hatch and a playdate/picnic at Commons Park with Jennie and Sarah and kids followed by escaping for a pedicure, yoga, and the grocery store. (Thanks to Cleo and Zoe for babysitting and tutoring the boys.) A successful day!
And that wasn't the end of it...we squeezed in an early movie-night before Finn had to run out to batting practice. And all the while Jason was on his way to Pennsylvania--whew!
Saturday
Block party craziness combined with Finn's baseball play-off game #1 combine with Jason out of town.
Sunday
Fire department on Wenonah, Father's Day brunch with Dad at Citrine, Eagles try-out for Finn, spontaneous and first-of-the-year trip to the pool. Exhausting but fun!
Monday-Friday
While Finn spent his day's studying Sustainable Science at Dominican, I delighted in a week with Wylie. We took a truly laid back approach to the week but still we:
-hit three grocery stores
-went for ice cream twice
-played at at least two parks
-explored the DuPage Children's Museum with Grandma
-ran various errands
-visited the library to stock up on Mo Willems books
-attended Dominican's open house to see what Finn had been learning about all week
In the meantime, baseball play-offs continued and we all rooted for Finn on Tuesday night, Wednesday night, and finally at the championship on Friday night. In between I squeeze in a few workouts and two book clubs. Again, whew!
