Summer bucketlist | u-pick strawberries

Every year after school is officially out and summer break has begun

one of our first bucket list items is to go pick strawberries!! The weather

has already been amazing here so the season was on its last few days when we went.

That is fine for us because we just take all the cousins for the experience.

 

Since the last day for u-pick we were free to go anywhere we wanted.

We set the kids loose to pick.

 

Afterwards we enjoyed lunch at the little playground there.

I love this yearly tradition!

 



Summer bucket list | summer schedule and organization

 

Now that the kids are getting older it is time

to add a little more to our summer plans.

Normally I have our summer bucket list printed up but

I am the only one to see it. This year I wanted to have it up

so they could help choice what we will doing that week.

You can check out the list I am made here.

We may or may not get to it all.

 

 

I also came up with daily chores (nothing to crazy)

and a summer schedule more for Jordan and I.

I strive on having a schedule to follow and a to do list.

For some reason seeing it helps me!

 

 

I have been letting Jordan know for weeks now that his

summer is not going to be sitting in front of the tv playing Minecraft.

I am hoping having the schedule he can see what he needs to be

doing and will keep us busy enough there is no "I'm bored"

I am not a real crazy though.

This is flexible.

If it is a yucky day I am totally fine with lounging in pjs

and having a movie day or lazy day as Jordan says.

 

Michelle is included in this too.

She may be a teenager but she still has to

hang out with us occasionally.

She enjoys going along with a friend to the lake with us.

I did make her get a summer job working on the raspberry picker.

That will keep her very busy for about a month.

I won't be making her have quiet time in her room though.

She already does that on her own lol.

 

Here's how I put together our summer spot.

First I made magnets to hold each days activities.

The magnets were not sticking good at all so I don't

go buy some crazy glue to help them stay on the clothes pins.

 

 

I then we through all my project life cards

and picked out some journaling cards that would work good!

The two smaller cards I filled with the kids daily chores.

The two bigger ones I wrote down our daily schedule.

I have two schedules one for at home/library days

and another is for our field trip days when we spend the

day out and about!

 



I filled in a bunch with items off our summer bucket list.

 

I then took all that and displayed it on our fridge where

everyone can see it! Hopefully this will help

us have a productive but fun summer with less

I am bored or whining because can't play video games all day.

 



 

Today is the last day of school and

we are more then ready to jump right into summer!