It's not pretty or decorative, but it is a bucket list of all the things Jonas and Lorelei (mostly Jonas) wanted to do this summer. So far we've only checked off 4 out of 12 items from the summer bucket list. Yesterday the pediatrician asked him if we had done anything fun this summer and he replied "No." Making a dreamy list of ideas is hopeful and fun, but the reality of July is a little bit different than our inspirational ideas from June. A lot of our plans required extra fun money to go do. Unfortunately our summer started with replacing our entire a/c system, which with our size home meant four separate units. Let's just say it ate up all our fun money. Now being on a budget is no excuse for not having summer fun, it just means looking for cheaper and free things to do. The pool is definitely our go to place in the month of July for fun. We try to make it to the pool at least once to twice a week in July. Lorelei had been really wanting to go to what...
Some days I feel like I've done it all. To look at me, you might say, "Now that's an ordinary mom". Dig a little deeper and you'll find I've led a pretty interesting life, done some extraordinary things, especially once I became a mother of four wonderful, extremely different children, who are now young adults. Unique personalities and needs, all wonderful, trying, and glorious at the same time!