I Am Back!!

It is the beginning of August and I am starting fresh and new!

I have not blogged since early June! I can’t believe how fast time flies! Well it is about time I got back to it, don’t you think? If you are new to following me you may not know that my husband lost his job in early May. It was quite devastating for our family and it took A LOT of faith to get us through but my husband found an amazing job and he will be back to work starting this week. It has been fun having him around all summer and the kids are going to have a hard time adjusting to him back to work but it will be great to be back on a schedule. I am not really strict especially in the summer but I do like things a certain way and having my husband around all summer has kind of thrown things off, for the good but I am ready to have things back to normal.

I have some really exciting things to share this coming month and I am excited you are here!. Right now I am just going to try and get back to blogging! I will share things with you soon, stay tuned you won’t want to miss it!

Below is a picture of our family on a vacation we took just last week to Devil’s Lake State Park in Wisconsin. If you are from this area I highly recommend going there, it is beyond beautiful!

We did a lot of hiking, this was one of the highest points we climbed to. Isn’t it beautiful?? We wanted to get in a camping trip before my husband had to start work. We will definitely be going back, hopefully next summer!

Have a great day!

Bonnie

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Easy Summer Bucket List

Today I am going to share with you how my children and I made a really easy yet fun bucket list for summer vacation. I don’t want to get to the end of their summer vacation and wish we had done this and that. Unlike some of the printable bucket lists out there this one you make yourself so you can make it for the things you and your family want to do and age appropriate for your children. My children are 7, 6, and 2 so we mostly geared it towards the older two kids. Here are the materials we used to make our bucket list:

A bucket, small container, or jar,

Scissors,

Markers or crayons,

Small strips of paper in two different colors.

 

Next I sat down with Adelaide 7,

and Colton 6,

…………and put together our ideas.

We used the pink paper for things we wanted to do outside of the home like a day trip or an adventure. We did things like, water park, hiking, bike ride, park, and other specific things we have around here we want to do this summer. Then on the yellow paper we put things that we can do around the house like, water balloon fight, sidewalk chalk, bake cookies, make play dough, bubbles, and so on. So then on days where we want to go out of the house and do something we will pick a pink card and when the kids need something to do at home they can pick a yellow card.

Then we folded the cards in half and put them in a container. The project only took us a few minutes and now we have a whole bunch of fun adventures for the summer! I am a simple kind of mom, nothing too crazy, fancy, or hard to do! What I like best about this list is you can make it just right for your family and you can add to it at any time!

Throw in extra surprises for the kids,

like a trip to the zoo to really shock them when they pull it out!

Have a great summer with your kids, make them remember all the fun things you did even if they are little things like blowing bubbles together!

Enjoy them, they are only little once!

~Bonnie

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