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Top Ten Lists…

August 3, 2012 By momcafe 12 Comments

Top ten things I love about summer:

1. Spending hours at the local swimming pool!! There’s nothing better than a long day in the water playing with my kids and the countless other children that beg for attention.
2. Having that “sunglow” from spending hours at the pool! I don’t care how you trace the cancer risk…the glow is a symbol of life to me.
3. Having little structure to the day without hurrying, stress or time restraints.
4. Going on road trips to see beloved family we only see once in a while.
5. Late night fireworks and cookouts that go against all rules of child rearing.
6. Long rainy days that are spent organizing closets and sorting through clothes.
7. Impulsivity. The ability to have an idea and just go for it because…it’s summer!
8. Finding out half way through the summer that there is a cheap morning camp that runs 4 days a week! (Just when the mornings were starting to get agonizing…)
9. Summer is always a perfect time to catch up on reading all the books in my “must read pile”.
10. Meeting new people that you normally wouldn’t spend time with through the new activities and summer trips.

Ten things I do NOT love about summer:

1. Dreams unfulfilled of lying in the sun relaxing while my children go and swim independent of my attention.
2. Layering sun block on my moaning squirming children all day every day, over and over again.
3. NOT having structure to keep the madness of both my children in check. Visualize the bumper car rides. Yes. Exactly like that.
4. Spending over 50 hours stuck in a car with my children. Need I say more?
5. Too much junk. Up to late. Over tired and over wired children. Defeats the fun.
6. Long rainy days that include restless wired and tired children whining and groaning with boredom. The relentless lectures about all they possess to make boredom go away. The inability to get summer projects successfully completed. Visual: Hamster wheel.
7. Impulsivity leads to wishful thinking and endless asking. “Can we do this? Go there? Stay here? PALEEEEEZE!!!!!!”
8. Getting kids off to camp by 9:00am, dressed, sun blocked, fed, snacks packed and gear packed is a bit like school days.
9. Seeing that pile of “must read” books and desperately wanting the quiet time to read them… Visual: Mouse in cheese trap.
10. Missing all the close friends you usually see all the time, but because of all the trips and summer activities had by all…you just simply can’t spend the much-needed time with them.

There it is. What’s on your list???

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Comments

  1. Candice says

    August 3, 2012 at 12:20 pm

    I love that my kids are up until at least 10 and sleep until usually 9, sometimes shall I dare say, 10!!! I don’t remember having morning time like this in almost 9 years. In our homeschool world, to get morning time like this again, I’ll have to wake up at 5! Sure, that’s likely. Maybe I’ll start working out at 5 am too, yeah, right. 🙂 Love the carefree schedule of summer…awesome!

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    • momcafe says

      August 3, 2012 at 12:25 pm

      I say school should start around ten in your house! Why not? Why change something so beautiful when you don’t HAVE to? Seriously. GO. FOR. IT. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Jen says

    August 3, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    I love how you did the lists, the good and bad of the same topic. While I was reading your top fav list and got to the morning camp one, the first thing I thought of was how much work that sounded like hehe. Then again, I am very much not a morning person. Here’s to your summer finishing off with a bang!

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    • momcafe says

      August 3, 2012 at 1:45 pm

      YES!!! I am sooo not a morning person too!! Oh we would be such great mom roomates!!!!! God forbid if anything happens to our hubbies, lets do it!!! LOVE you and praying your morning gets better…

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  3. Michelle says

    August 5, 2012 at 8:58 pm

    Great list! I can definitely relate!
    Michelle
    http://normalchaosforamultitaskmom.blogspot.com/2012/07/in-need-of-some-emotional-duct-tape.html

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    • momcafe says

      August 5, 2012 at 11:53 pm

      Thank you sooo much for reading and commenting Michelle! Will definately check out your blog!

      Reply
  4. Diane | An Extraordinary Day says

    August 5, 2012 at 9:17 pm

    Don’t we all have a love/hate relationship with summer.
    Hope you’re able to suck the marrow out of the little that remains and land heavily on the love side of Summer!
    Blessings!

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    • momcafe says

      August 5, 2012 at 11:48 pm

      Sucking the marrow out right now in Indiana with my sister and her lovely family! Decided to stay one more day…pushing it to the limit!! Thank you so much for reading and commenting!!!!

      Reply
  5. Angie VanKannel says

    August 6, 2012 at 11:24 am

    Fun list. Creative!!

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    • momcafe says

      August 6, 2012 at 1:23 pm

      Thanks Ang! 🙂

      Reply
  6. Marcia says

    August 7, 2012 at 10:13 am

    You hit the main “tops” on my list! I think a “top 10 why Moms are so excited when August comes is in order!!! Love your blog (as always)

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    • momcafe says

      August 7, 2012 at 2:41 pm

      Oh yes- that one is coming SOON!!! It seems I am yelling at my kids more and more as my wick burns down in tolerance! I love them and will ache in my heart when their first day comes…but I think my feet will be doing a bit of a happy dance! 🙂

      Reply

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