Blog Sweepstakes Idea - Oh What Do You Do in the Summertime

On my blog ideas giveaway, one of the suggestions for a blog post was "Oh What Do You Do in the Sumertime?" I like this idea and decided it might be nice to do a posting for each of the seasons, but since it's summer, we'll start there. Thanks for the idea, Aimee.

First let me say I'm tired of the schools whittling off a few days at the beginning and ending of the summer. When I was a kid, we always finished school at the end of May and started back the last week of August. Every year they rob us of a few extra days and I resent it. Those are OUR days, not theirs. And I want them all.

When I was a kid, my dad was a schoolteacher. Every school year he'd finish work the same day we got out of school. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but until I was about twelve years old, I thought all parents had summers off. I didn't realize we were so lucky.

What do we do in the summertime?

We go to family reunions.
We swim.
We have a family vacation.
My kids cook and bake.
We read, sometimes together, sometimes alone.
We hurry with chores so we can play.
We visit Grandpa and Grandma.
We play with cousins.
We dance.
We watch movies at home.
We sit in cold matinee theaters.
We dread going back to school.
We worry about what teachers the kids will get.
The kids go to girl's camp, youth conference, high adventure, scout camp, trek and Especially for Youth.
We watch fireworks.
I beg Travis not to waste money on personal fireworks.
He ignores me.
We cook hotdogs and s'mores at our firepit.
We enjoy the cool evening air.
We go to the library.
We eat ice cream.
We go to Salt Lake and eat baguette and butter at the park.
We wish Utah had a Motsumoto's Shave Ice stand.
We settle for an occasional snowcone.
We have friends over almost every day.
We play night games.
We stay up too late.
We sleep in.
We feed the ducks old bread.
We wish it could last twice as long.