Well, Summer arrived and I'm not a Summer person... I could tell some reasons why I don't like summer anymore, but when you have kids and they love the season so much you have to reconsider e try see the best of this hot, hot, hot time of the year. Lets see if I can.
1. Summer Break
The kids are at home all the time what can be very agitated and fussy but for another hand you don't have to wake up early and be a slave of the clock. You can organize your day in a more slowly and gently way and just enjoy your kids.
2. Beach
Ah beach...I love the sea! One of my best childhood' s memories is when we used to travel to the beach in summer time. The air, the smell, the sun, the sand...
3. Lake
Although there is a lot of lakes where we live, we don't have the opportunity to enjoy a day in a lake yet, but the idea to spending a day there, having a picnic seems to be very relaxing and refreshing. I can't wait!
4. Pool
What a good thing to be in a pool! The kids can play, swim...Just be in the water is good you don't have to do anything. Just enjoy!
5. Rain Shower
When I was kid I would't miss the opportunity to take a rain shower. For some reason when you grow up you let to do this kind of things (Why????). But if you have kids you can use then as excuse the enjoy the rain (rsrsrs). Or just go, who cares! And have a rain shower with your feet on the ground is very good to your energy. Of course we are talking about a simple rain. Avoid the lightning and thunderstorms!
6. Water Balloons
Have a water balloon fight is a funny thing to do with the kids, specially now that they have that kind of balloons you can fill a bunch together and, the best thing ever, you don't have to tie them!!!
7. The days are longer
If the days are longer you can have dinner and you will have more time after that to do things you like.
8. Reading
This was my thirteen years old son's suggestion! He loves to read and have spent hours in our backyard hammock reading.
OK, you don't need summer to read but the kids will have more time to do it, and there is a lot of wonderful books they will really enjoy.
9. Play Outside
Because it's summer break the kids have a lot of time to play outside, ride a bike, play ball, play hide and seek and a lot of different types of games, and if you are lucky like us and your street have a bunch of kids will be tons of fun. Of course, sometimes some disagreements between the games but is normal.
10. Summer Food
How can I start? There's a lot of different kinds of food we can eat in summer. Watermelon, ice cream, Popsicle, barbecue outside, lemonade, iced tea, salads, fruit salad and I'm sure there's a lot more but I can't remember right now.
I know there's more reasons to like summer but this is what I got..
So, I really try to cheer me up here and look at summer with the eyes of a child. Maybe this way I will enjoy this season a little more and don't be so upset about the weather. One day I will write a post talking about the winter happiness and for that I will not have to thing too much...because I already know!
