Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are…
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect Tomorrow.
One day I shall dig my nails into the earth,
or bury my face in my pillow,
or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky
and want, more than all the world, your return.
- Mary Jean Iron

Seventy Six Days of Summer

In honor of summer, and it's wondrous glory, I've come up with a list of 76 things I want to do this summer:
  1. go to the library and participate in the summer reading program--Unbeknownst to me, they've discontinued the program for adults, the kids are doing it though.
  2. visit the main branch of our library system--truly wonderful and just far enough away to be special.
  3. say yes more than no
  4. read bedtime stories outside
  5. go to the farmer's market almost every week
  6. relax about what constitutes dinner (cereal anyone?)
  7. have capri suns and or juice boxes in the downstairs fridge--there for the taking
  8. ditto freeze pops
  9. make a chalk mural on our sidewalk
  10. fingerpaint
  11. teach Julianna how to ride a bike
  12. paint my bedroom, bathroom, the hall, the kitchen or the kid's bath.
  13. have a lemonade stand
  14. bake cookies often
  15. workout regularly
  16. sell bikes we've outgrown
  17. go to fireworks
  18. take kids to COSI (science museum)
  19. take kids to zoo mostly to ride the rides and play on the playground
  20. take kids to the park
  21. take kids to Innis Woods Metropark
  22. tour the statehouse
  23. go to 3 2 1 movies  Date Night, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Ramona and Beezus
  24. go to Wicked!!!!
  25. Jacob's birthday party
  26. go to Kelley's Island
  27. play miniature golf
  28. go bowling
  29. read a lot
  30. take a photography class
  31. don't sweat the small stuff
  32. know that most things really are small stuff
  33. celebrate Father's Day with two of my favorite fathers.
  34. play board games--Qwirkle or Blokus or Parcheesi or Chinese Checkers
  35. spend a Sunday afternoon, preferably a rainy afternoon, playing UNO
  36. go to the pool
  37. go to my parents
  38. go to the Columbus Zoo
  39. go to Cincinnati Zoo
  40. go to Newport Aquarium
  41. go to Slate Run historical farm
  42. go to orientation with Rebekah
  43. go away for a night with my friends
  44. catch fireflies
  45. play more Wii
  46. make snow cones
  47. make popsicles
  48. make ice cream sandwiches with my adorable molds that have yet to be used
  49. make homemade ice cream...at least twice
  50. make an ecosystem
  51. go on family bike rides
  52. go for walks by the river
  53. go canoeing
  54. take lots of pictures
  55. have dessert for dinner...at least once
  56. make bulletin boards for the kid's rooms
  57. make Julianna dresses
  58. stay up late
  59. sleep in sometimes
  60. go to a baseball game
  61. go on a picnic...or two
  62. have Dairy Queen late at night when we really ought to be in bed
  63. go to Handels (awesome ice cream with a park to play)
  64. go to Young's Dairy farm (ice cream)
  65. go to Knights (more ice cream)
  66. try Jeni's ice cream
  67. Have a special day with J&J where we buy backpacks, lunch boxes and school supplies
  68. grow tomatoes
  69. grow basil, parsley, cilantro...
  70. spend a day at Easton Town Center...ride the trolley, go out to lunch or dinner, maybe let the kids play in the fountain
  71. go on 6 5 4 dates with my hubby
  72. spend an evening with Rebekah--dinner & a movie
  73. go somewhere I've never gone before
  74. not work--at least not most of the time. I think the baby I watch is still going to come one morning a week. We'll be poor, but it will be nice to have a break. :)
  75. spend time in our backyard swing--relaxing
  76. say yes to the ice cream man--at least a few times
Hope you're able to enjoy a wonderful summer too, however you celebrate it.

Edited: When I accomplish them, I'll highlight them in green.
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