Wanna hear a funny story? This is the post I was going to post last year, and never did. 😂 My favorite is the second paragraph where I say I'll stick to a bucket list and post it. Bless my little 2021 heart. So I'm just gonna post it for this year and call it good.
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Ok. I know I do this every year. But this is the year damnit.
This is the year I make a bucket list and stick to it AND actually do posts! Because I want to preserve these memories.
So here goes. We will start with the goals and school stuff and then move on to the actual bucket list.
Goals:
Make a schedule and stick to it. Operation Summer Sanity is a go!
Continue schoolwork for the boys. General ideas like working on handwriting, cutting, reading 100 books in conjunction with 1000 minutes of reading for Bear and book reports (and writing in complete sentences), math for the twins along with vocab and speech. This will be a post on its own. We have a lot to accomplish, and I feel like I finally have the knowledge to move forward!
Date Nights with the boys one on one: mini golf, go to the movies, etc.
Stick with the idea of weekly themes I don’t need to go all out, just use the weekly themes to come up with fun ideas for things to do
Try to do at least two instagramable things a week not because I need the likes, but because I love looking back on my Instagram at all the fun things we do! Also, the boys’ family needs to get to know them better. We stay pretty isolated and that’s our choice but I’d love for the family to have some kind of bond with the boys
Now for the actual bucket list!!! ( I so wish there was a way I could do multiple columns for this, its sooooooooo long!)
Outside Ideas:
Watch Fireworks
Draw with Chalk
Bubble Guns or rent a bubble machine
Go get sno-cones
Watch a sunrise
Watch a sunset
Catch Fireflies (GA idea)
Go on a picnic
Pick Fresh Fruit (Froberg Farm)
Read outside
Water Balloon Fight
Ride Bikes
Lay in a hammock
Stargaze
Wash the Car
Fly a kite
Play Frisbee
Plant a garden
Picture Scavenger Hunt
Water gun fight
Slip and Slide
Play Catch
Rent a bouncy house
Sidewalk Chalk & Hopscotch
Ice block with toys
Giant Bubbles
Sponge Ball War
Melt Ice Cubes
Walk the Plank/Ninja Warrior Course
Bury a Time Capsule
Fourth of July Family Field Day
Shaving Cream on Trampoline
Buy an Above Ground Pool and do all the swimming!
Inside Ideas:
Morning Invitationals a la Days with Grey
Make Play Doh plate things
Finger paint
Color Big Pages
Read Lots of Books
Singe Lots of Songs
Make a Paper Bag Puppet
Make Popsicles
Make a Fort
Make Ice Cream
Make Jam
Make Lemonade
Make cheerio necklaces
Play with Lego Blocks
Marshmallow Shooters
Make Ice Cream Sandwiches
Make Sno Cones
Make Paper Wind Sock
Make Jello Jigglers
Crafternoon
Make suckers
Home made Root Beer
Do a science project
Banana Splits
Nerf Sword Fights
Obstacle Course
Paint Rocks
Journaling
All the baking
Adventures:
San Antonio with Mom
Peach Creek!
Visit 10 different city parks
Moody Gardens
-Whole Family
-Bear Bear
-Palm Beach
Zoo
Observation Tower
Children’s Museum
-Dolphin Tour
-Build a sandcastle
-Feed the seagulls
-Ride the Ferry
-Visit the Board Walk
Surfside Beach
Baseball Game/Sporting Event
Visit 5 Splash Pads
George Ranch
Frobergs Farm
Alvin Animal Safari
Visit Farmer’s Markets
Arboretum
Visit a lake
Go to the Library
Free tour of the Ship Channel
Aquarium
Visit Dad at Work
Visit the police horses
Feed the ducks at a pond
Amusement Park
Visit a historical site
Tour a fire station
Tour a factory (Maybe Blue Bell?)
Splashtown
Pirates Bay Area Waterpark
Discovery Green Concert
Discovery Green Movie Night
Drive In Movie
Kemah Boardwalk
Go to a Festival
Demolition Derby
Go to a Carnival
San Jacinto State Park
Mom and Dad Date:
Summer nights fire pits
Go bowling
Ropes Date at Moody Gardens
Mini Golf
River Trip
Tour historic home
