Summer To Do List...

• Learn to sew (more than a simple seam or button)


• Make final preparations for Fostering


• Actually sit outside and enjoy the weather


• Reduce my busyness (So far I do not see this happening)


• Try a few summer dessert recipes I clipped LAST year


• Lay on the ground with the family at night and watch the stars


• Go camping for a WHOLE week


• nightly strolls around the neighborhood


• college hunt with Matt and Cassie


• Continue friendships that edify God and lift me up (Sometimes God puts people in your life for a reason and a season)


• Watch the kids play and have fun with their neighborhood friends


• Go to a few ball games and a couple car races


• Eat LESS hotdogs


• Catalog all my clipped recipes


• make a few scrapbooks (I want to make a recipe scrapbook for Maggie and a photo one for my mom)


• Look into investing in a pool...even if it IS a cheap rubber one. :)


• Take my time to really investigate and purchase my curriculum for the fall


• Not go to so many barbecues and parties. I think one or two a month is great! But when you get to the point when you DREAD getting another invite-enough is enough! I love my friends and family don't get me wrong, I just miss some of the quite moments of life.


• Send out a few personal cards in the Mail. Just a Hi and thinking of you notes. Sometimes you loose touch with people when you are a busy family. I value my friendships but my family IS my first ministry. However, I do not want my "old" friends to feel unloved.

I know some of this is unrealistic being that I am a mother of teens. However, I do want to try to recapture what summers are meant for...relaxation and rejuvenation.