School's out for summer.....

School is out!!  I countdown the days worse than my boys!  I love summer and the things that summer brings.   It's been less than a week and I feel like I am stressing myself out w/ a mental list of ALL the things we "need" to do this summer.  
 There is the responsible list:
 A. Paint the exterior of the house.
 B. build a deck
 C. Clean out the chicken pen and dog kennel
 D. redo flower beds and spread mulch...
 E. finish upholstering Mrs. McReynold's chairs that you've had for a month!
 F. put a new floor in the kitchen, bathroom and shop.
 G. add on a new laundry room.

 You get the idea. 

THEN there is THE LIST!:
A. Go to DC for the 4th to watch the BEST fireworks and see Smithsonian again.
B. Paint the rain barrel something crazy
C. make that table out of all the bottle caps we've been saving
D. Hang the lights on the patio ( I got them for Christmas :)
E. Go to the BEACH. ALOT
F. Take Cooper to SeaWorld and Oliver to Legoland.
G. Go Camping on the Beach (primitive, next to the water kind of beach camping)
H. Spend lots of time @ the River taking pictures of my boys.
I.  EAT lots of watermelon -them, not me. I'm allergic.  BUT I love the smell of them eating.
J. Fill my beverage server w/ bubble mix and let them blow and spill bubbles all over the 
     yard
K. GRill, Grill, Grill.  and eat veggies from the garden. 
L. Let the boys make the 8x20 visquine slip & slide in the backyard and not worry about the dead grass landing strip it leaves when they take it up.  It'll grow back.

Again, you get the idea.   I could go on w/ both lists.  I may get a few completed off of both lists too.  My lists do not include the schedules of summer football workouts, swim team practice /meets or play practice @ BLT.  These are also important lists b/c are also part of our summer and determines how much time we can spend on List #2.  

Basically list #1 is stay @ home and work.  List#2 is run away from home and all of it's work!  Where's it gonna go anyway? It'll be there when we get back. 
 There's always the Fall.   No wait, that's football season and soccer......  

We'll see @ the end of the summer if I get anything accomplished.   Thanks for reading.facebook