One of the best things about summer is that slowed down schedule — it’s a time when I don’t mind that our projects take more than a day to complete.
Kids can take their time with the creative process and enjoy each step. Summer is a time to think about creating art that has multiple steps in the project. You know, those “we need to wait for it to dry before the next step” type of activities.
The weather’s getting warmer, the kids are out of school and the farmer’s markets are open — summer is here!
Now that the kids have been on break for a few weeks, the initial excitement of summer has worn off and we are all looking for some fun things to do.
The goal parents: to fight off the dreaded “I’m bored” comment and keep them away from the screen long enough to make a few memories.
We’re just back from our annual family vacation — and honestly, this one almost did me in!
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE to travel!
Exploring new places, seeing some AMAZING sights and being with my family — just us without all the day-to-day craziness that we leave behind — it’s something I look forward to each year.
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This week, I’m excited to be working with Kohl’s and some truly amazing bloggers on the #DestinationSummer project.
In addition to their Pinterest Virtual Road Trip, Kohl’s also has a great in store campaign taking place this summer called “FindYourYes”.
The idea is to find what matters to you.
For us parents, a huge ‘Yes’ is our kids.
But while I was watching the #FindYourYes video and thinking about my kids, I began to wonder – what’s their “Yes”; what are the things that matter to my kids?
Wow has summer just flown by or what?! The kids only have a few more weeks before they start classes here (they are NOT ready to go back) and this is the last topic in our Summer Science series.
If you’ve missed the previous science projects and booklists, please check out the links at the bottom of the post — Trisha (Inspiration Laboratories) and I have had such a fun time pulling together hands-ons science and many of the activities can be used year round!
Time with the kids is precious.
You really begin to understand this as the kids grow up and especially as those long, relaxing days of summer turn into the more busy back-to-school hours that are beginning this month.
When the kids are born, you have approximately 940 Saturdays together before they fly the coop. Yes, someone somewhere counted up all those days and we get less than a thousand weekends (really not much when you look at it like that, is it).
When they’re young, “The days are long but the years are short” as Gretchen Rubin would say. Then they get older and both the days and the years fly by quickly.
I only have 55 more Saturdays with my oldest.
And here’s what’s been eating at me lately — as the kids get older, their schedule becomes full of things (fun things) that they want to do. BUT (and it’s a big but), they still REALLY need that time with you!
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I know, we all dread them — the annual requests for fundraisers.
Just this past week, I’ve received notices about the middle school fundraiser, the choir fundraiser, the Senior class fundraiser and a fall fundraiser.
I’m all for helping the schools to raise money but my time is limited and I don’t like to continually ask family and friends to support these causes (heck, they all have kids too).
BUT, there is one fundraiser that I can get behind 100% —
because it doesn’t cost me any additional money or time
AND the kids can do it all on their own!
This shop has been compensated by #CollectiveBias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. I’ve been in a parenting quandary lately. My oldest is a senior in high school (I know – when the hell did that happen!) And as we are doing college prep and visiting campuses, it’s really hitting me …
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