Summer Checklists

The kids and I are all making summer checklists today-- things that we want to be sure we do this summer, and I thought I'd share them. I tried to not interfere too much in theirs, although I have tried to help Kimball set some more reasonable goals and plans. (He's obviously the oldest child over-achieving type. I don't know where he gets it!)

Michal's Summer Checklist

• Go beach camping-- check! (I'd been really wanting to do that this summer, and at the last minute, we took a four-day weekend and did it!)
• Do something fun with the kids every day.
• Learn/Teach something with the kids every day.
• Make fresh squeezed lemonade, refrigerator pickles, and a homemade ice cream that Henry can eat. (Not all for the same occasion;)
• Run in a 10K race.
• Tackle one organizational nightmare project a week. (homeschool closet, computer armoire, cookbook cupboard, kitchen freezer, Kimball's desk area, . . . )
• Read A Thomas Jefferson Education plus at least 5 books for fun. 
• Learn how to use my dehydrator to make fruit leather or dried tomatoes.
• Have at least one family over for dinner each month (not counting people related to us).
• Have a backyard movie party. At least once, but maybe more often.
• Teach Bronwen to read. 
• Call my sisters-in-law.
• Take my kids to Folsom Lake at least once, but perhaps once a week!
• Let the kids have the lemonade stand they are always begging for.

Kimball's Summer Checklist

• Play 4-way Ninjago.
• Read 4 serial books in one day.
• Eat a whole or half box of Ritz Crackers. (Random!)
• Write and publish a book. (No problem! Easy, peasy, right Tamara?)
• Make meals for a week. (I WISH this were a reasonable item!)
• Hold a diving contest.
• Pickle something weird.
• Clock myself for swimming from one end of the pool to the other without coming up for air in the middle.
• Watch Kung Fu Panda 2.

Henry's Summer Checklist

• Go swimming at least 12 times.
• Read at least 3 *** "me-approved" books. (Upon inquiry, I discovered that this means books he rates at at least 3 stars after reading.)
• Invent a game.
• Win at least 5 games of "Josh-ball".
• Go to an amusement park.
• Learn to ride my bike without hands for at least 10 seconds.
• Make a successful club that lasts at least a week.
• Write a comic book that is at least 10 pages long.
• Have a lemonade stand with Kimball.

Ian's Summer Checklist

• Go to Raging Waters.
• Skip one meal and eat two lunches on Saturday. (???)
• See the new Cars 2 movie in the theater.
• Read 12 chapter books in one day. (His are short.)
• Learn to do a back flip.

Bronwen's Summer Checklist

• Go visit Grammy and Papa.
• Have a lemonade stand.
• Go on a date with Dad to a restaurant to eat burgers for dinner.
• Go to swimming lessons.
• Go see a movie in the theater.
• Play hide and seek.
• Learn to do a back flip.
• Go to the zoo.

What's on your summer checklist?