This Week Happened 6.30 + Summer Bucket List☀️📋
We just got back from a weeklong trip to Washington, DC and also a quick trip to the mountains, so my fridge is completely bare, except for a case of peaches I picked up from a stand on the side of the road.
Usually I experience a major let-down when peaches first hit the grocery stores. I so badly want to take a huge juicy bite of a peach and experience all the magic that peaches have to offer, but when I do take that first bite the flavor is dull, sad and uneventful. It usually takes peaches until mid-July to reach their peak awesomeness, but not this year. This year they are rockin from the very start. So grab yourself a case of peaches and let’s start cooking up something mind-blowing for the little ones.
Peaches + Cloves Baby Puree (4+ Months)
Peach + Raspberry + Quinoa Chunky Puree (6+ Months)
Peach Rice Pudding with Vanilla + Cinnamon (9+ Months)
☀️Summer Bucket List 2018☀️
I started writing my summer bucket list a couple of weeks ago and posted a poll on Instagram where just under 50% of you thought I was crazy for making one. That’s cool! You can totally just work off of mine:)
Most of the year I am a so-so mom – I have strict bedtimes, I follow a schedule to the T and I serve healthy meals with lots of veggies and almost no sugar. Then comes summer, and it is all out the window. Summer to me, is a time to do things that you never get to do – eat homemade popsicles for breakfast, stay up WAY past our bedtimes and have days with no plans or agendas. It’s a time to let loose and have fun. I want my girls to remember their summers as a magical time where anything and everything was possible. A time when it was totally acceptable if they went to bed wet and dirty from a fun day exploring in a nearby creek. I want them to understand that ice cream is a dessert and a special treat but sometimes in the summer it can also work for a dinner. Summer is a time when family and friends are close, laughter fills the air and when the sun goes down that only signals the start of a new fun nighttime adventure.
But to keep my sanity, I have to make a list of things that I can easily refer back to on a day when nothing is planned and the girls need something to do to not drive me crazy.
- Movie at the Park
- Westlands Splash Pad
- Build a Mud Kitchen
- Pick Strawberries
- Hike 1 mile with Kids
- Press Found Flowers
- Make Homemade Lemonade
- Explore DC with Friends
- Play at 5 New Parks
- Go on a Bug Hunt
- Stay UP Past Bedtime
- Go for a Night Swim
- Fairy Button Hunt
- Backyard Campout
- Search for Dinosaur Bones (plastic ones I hide by a stream)
- Movie in the Backyard
- Sunflower Farm
- Make Homemade Ice Cream
- Sleep Under the Stars
- Watch Fireworks
- Dance in the Rain
- Ride rollercoasters
- Learn to Skip Rocks
- Try Something New
- Sail Boats Down a River
- Water Ballon Fight
- Make Homemade Jam
- Roll Down a Hill
- Master Making Homemade Milkshakes
- Learn to SUP
- Picnic at the Pool, Lake, Gardens
- Breakfast at Farmer’s Market
- Food Truck Dinner at Jazz in the Park
- Tea Party with Friends
- DIY Crazy S’mores
- Bike to Brewery
Did you make a summer bucket list? If so, what is on it?
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN MY WORLD
- Pretending to be astronauts at the Air and Space Museum in DC. Both Ellie and Parker are now in love with anything spaced themed!
- We went to Breckenridge with some friends when we got back from DC and we went on the most magical hike through a forest of fairy houses.
- The Urban Pirates boat ride in Baltimore was the most fun I think I have ever had!
- Chilling on a hanging swing instead of eating their dinner;)