Week Three

Ok, so part of me taking the summer off was to spend time with my kids. This would be my 10 and 12 year olds. This is the first summer in their life that they do not have to go to childcare/camp. Typically their summer days were long, to get to camp they need to get up earlier than they needed to for school and their days there were longer.

I thought this would be great for them, able to stay up a little later, sleep in a little longer and the things we could do together. Little did I know how much they would like it, days I wanted to head out to the zoo or to run an errand, it took forever to get them going. No one wanted to get dressed or go out, they were in an electronic zombie state. During the school year, electronics are only allowed on the weekends, so having the summer off they were in Minecraft heaven. When they did get moving it was around 3:00 for the pool in the back yard.

I was going to have their friends over to build those summer memories of hanging out, building, creating, discovering. Ha, that didn't turn out, could never get on the same schedule of availability with them- ugh.

I secretly, didn't mind as I too was feeling a bit lazy. My main goal for the week was figuring out a budget friendly little summer family vacation as my husband;s vacation takes up my 4th week off of work.