Summer Bucket List

"Hope today goes okay," Greg whispered as he kissed my forehead goodbye this morning.

"It's day one," I said. "In the bag."

Summer break officially began today, and we hit the ground running--barber shop at 8:30 this morning was smooth sailing and things were going so well I just kept pushing that luck--Target AND Kroger. We made it home long enough to unload before what I assumed would be a quick trip to the vet with our newest kitty who is annoyingly peeing in baskets of clean laundry.

"Oh we will totally just run there and then eat lunch when we get home," I thought.

Only when we got there, sitting in the waiting room was an old couple with red-rimmed eyes and a pile of crumpled kleenex surrounding their very old cocker spaniel, and my boys immediately began using the dog scale as their own mini trampoline/body building pose stage and I knew we were doomed.

Doomed.

An hour later, we were home (and the old cocker spaniel was not) and since it was too early for wine, I made lunch.

Table ready, I wrangled the boys and then I put this in front of them:

We filled this little "summer bucket" a few weeks back on a Sunday evening when Greg asked me what I was going to do with them all summer.

So as a family of four we brainstormed a few ideas and they were horrific.

Like, seriously, am I really going to successfully do any of these?

Let's be honest: no. No I am not. Because the key word is "successfully." I am going to attempt the heck out of them, that I promise.

So on that brainstorming night, I asked Greg to go get me a piece of paper to write these awesome ideas down.

Generally, when you ask someone to get you a piece of paper, they return with a clean piece of paper that has space for which you can put words.

He returned with this:

I took it as an omen, that it was not only the crazed minion, but a drawing that Will had taken aggression out on and scribbled on angrily.

"Seriously?" I asked.

"Why can't you use the back?" he replied.

Yeah no.

So I retrieved paper on my own and wrote down those (mostly) far-fetched summer bucket list ideas.

The idea is this: every Monday, the boys and I will select an idea to be completed at some point that week (most of the ideas are sort of a day-long adventure), and then each Monday, you can read about our adventure right here, all summer long.

Maybe we will inspire you to create a bucket list of your own.

Or not.

Maybe you have a bucket list full of ideas that are far easier than ours--do share in the comments below!

Let the summer begin!

-Kristin