Tuesday, May 31, 2011

I've decided to take -

a SUMMER SABBATICAL.

I will probably continue to post about our Date Nights, but for the most part I'll be doing the following:

Monday:

AM - groceries, library
PM - science project

Tuesday:

AM - pool
PM - neighbor's day camp

Wednesday

AM - themed outing
PM - Little Prince art class, "home date" with Sunshine, possibly a movie afterward

Thursday

AM - playdates
PM - home craft projects

Friday

AM - summer movies at the theater (ten movies for six bucks!)
PM - get a babysitter for the two little ones while they're taking their naps, and have a date with the two older ones

We also have daily time blocked out for reading, math and boredom. I'm a big believer in unstructured time. How will they learn to creatively fill their time if they don't have any time to fill?

And following last year's "Surviving Summer," we have weekly themes. Every theme will include a craft, an activity, a recipe, an outing, and a service project. The kids helped me select themes for this year. We've got:

Dinosaurs
Science
South America
Africa
Asia
United States
Trains
Farm
Cars

I'm still available through email (and I'd be happy to email you my list of the fun things we're doing), and I'm sure I'll float around the blogosphere occasionally. But in the meantime, just know I haven't died or anything. I'm just hangin' with these guys.


Have a great summer, and see you in August!

8 comments:

Jill said...

Thank you for sharing. I love this kind of inspiration! Have fun!!

Jocelyn Christensen said...

Awesome! Have a great time!

Erin said...

Sounds like fun! I'm going to do my best to follow your lead.

Stepper the Mighty said...

Cool!

But also - aww, bummy! I will miss you until August.

Stephanie said...

I'll miss you too. So I may just send you random emails or something. :)

Qait said...

What a great summer plan! I love your ideas! Sounds like it will be a wonderful summer for all of you. :)

Lacy@uphillandsmiling said...

okay, I've just been thinking about not blogging during the summer and I just thought how can I do that? well, you just did and I might follow your lead...

I LOVE your summer ideas and I'm telling you right now I'm going to use many of them, thank you. :)

Lara Neves said...

Happy Summer! I do hope you'll continue with the date nights...they are so fun to read about, and try ourselves when we can.