Hello

I was listening to a Podcast recently, and the host was asking his guest about what he remembered about their childhood. The guest mentioned being free. He was happy and spent time with his sister in their backyard. The guest could not say if anything happened to make it memorable, but he remembered being free, and he was happy with that.

Summer for me means doing something memorable that the kids will remember- something we could do together despite our very busy schedules. For me, it means family time. Summer is almost over, and it means the kid’s birthdays, vacations, busyness at work, and hot days- my joy will be the time we spend together.

My kids are getting older, and this summer, I have been trying to find things to do so that I do not hear the dreaded four-letter words:

“ Mommy, I am bored.”

Since I work, most of my activities with the kids happen after work and on the weekend, and so far, the kids have been enjoying it- I was told :)

Here are some things we did

Visited a paint spot. We paid for some clay items and painted them. When we were done, we gave the items we painted back to the lady in the store and they would fire it in a kiln. We got our items after a few days
Made pizza from scratch (see the pictures below)
They went to the zoo a few times
Signed up for team sport- all the better to run around and get to make more friends.
Visited family

One of my favorite thing to do was making pizza from scratch and we had fun. There was flour on hair, faces, on the floor! I will be honest to say, I was worried about clean up at the end, but it was easy. The boys tried out pepperoni pizza, I put pesto and onions on my pizza and I loved it. Would I do this again, absolutely!

Maybe next time, I will share my recipe!

What did you do for summer? Let me know in the comments!