I’M<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong> in charge of my kids for the summer?!??<\/p>\nI remember when the kids\u00a0were newborns and the hospital\u00a0let me slip out the front door with my\u00a0bundle-of-joy and a\u00a0total of ONE “how to bathe your baby” class under my belt.\u00a0 That was\u00a0it.\u00a0 That was the extent of the preparation I received on feeding, clothing, loving and in general not-only-keeping-my-newborn-alive-but-having-them-grow-into-well-adjusted-intelligent-and-successful-adults.<\/p>\n
Daunting, no?<\/p>\n
Well that’s the way I feel about this summer.\u00a0 Poorly qualified and utterly ill-prepared.<\/p>\n
For every OTHER\u00a0summer of their lives, the kids have been in\u00a0daycare, then summer camp, then they’ve had nannies (nannies are the BEST!\u00a0 You can breeze out the door to work while the kids are still sleeping even) and\u00a0babysitters.\u00a0 You name it, they’ve done it.\u00a0 Just not with ME.\u00a0 The weight of a fun summer has always rested on someone ELSE’S shoulders.<\/p>\n
But now?\u00a0 All me.\u00a0 All the time!\u00a0 And where’s the class on this??\u00a0 Where’s the class on this\u00a0WHEN YOU NEED IT?!??!<\/p>\n
Panic, much??!<\/p>\n
Heck YEAH!\u00a0 YEAH, I’M PANICKED!!!\u00a0\u00a0Because it\u00a0turns out it’s REALLY HARD to\u00a0actually DO a fun summer yourself.\u00a0 Heretofore, it was easy.\u00a0 It was EASY to tell\u00a0the\u00a019-year-old nanny\u00a0to do it for me.\u00a0 Actually doing it MYSELF??\u00a0\u00a0That’s really, really\u00a0hard.<\/p>\n
‘Cause…uh…what do I even DO?\u00a0 And when I say DO, I mean WHAT DO I EVEN DO WITH MY OWN CHILDREN FOR THE NEXT TWO-AND-A-HALF MONTHS?!??\u00a0 [Besides bathing them.\u00a0 Which is all I feel qualified to do.\u00a0 Because\u00a0THAT I\u00a0had a class on.\u00a0 But it\u00a0seems like kindof a\u00a0weird summer activity now that the kids are\u00a09 and 10.]<\/p>\n
As a side note,\u00a0I\u00a0gotta tell you\u00a0I’m pretty sure I’ve already\u00a0cut off my nose\u00a0to spite my face.\u00a0 I\u00a0limited\u00a0the kids’ t.v. watching to ONE HOUR per\u00a0day this summer.\u00a0 T.V. Watching was Summer Plan A.\u00a0\u00a0 (Talk about being a frickin’ moron.\u00a0 Who eliminates Summer Plan A right out of the gate??\u00a0\u00a0Moron.)<\/p>\n
So\u00a0it’s\u00a0hammer down now and Summer Plan B is in full effect.\u00a0 Summer Plan B is…technically…nothing.\u00a0 But I’m calling it “Whatever comes up, as it comes up.”\u00a0 That has a better ring to it.<\/p>\n
And it just so happens that I\u00a0caught my son\u00a0reading the Dr. Seuss-y\u00a0“Great Day for UP” to the dog last night and thought to myself, “Okey doke.\u00a0 Time for some more age-appropriate reading material.”\u00a0\u00a0So this morning I signed both kids up for the\u00a0Summer Reading Program at the local library.\u00a0 They’ll get fun prizes based on how much they read with the side benefit of giving\u00a0us someplace to go every once-in-a-while.<\/p>\n
I’m now calling Summer Plan B, “A\u00a0brilliant plan if I do say so myself.”<\/p>\n
AND??\u00a0 While I was signing the kids\u00a0up for the reading program, I noticed that the library had a free class on how to make and use your own stilts.\u00a0 STILTS?!\u00a0 Who doesn’t LOVE stilts??\u00a0 Stilts are superfun!!!\u00a0\u00a0In fact, they’re so fun that I’m gonna observe the class so that I can make my own stilts when I get home.\u00a0 Hey!\u00a0 It’s MY summer too, ya know.<\/p>\n
And that’s it.\u00a0 Those are the plans.\u00a0 Do I need more plans than that??\u00a0\u00a0‘Cause really – nothin’ says “fun summer” like\u00a0a\u00a0good book and a pair of stilts!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let’s see.\u00a0 What are we\u00a0doing this summer…. Well, I just borrowed the 4-book-series of Game of Thrones.\u00a0 It’s 3,456 pages long.\u00a0 So that will keep me busy for a while.\u00a0 There’s also\u00a0tennis, of course.\u00a0 But you\u00a0knew\u00a0that already.\u00a0 The new dog needs to be walked twice a day.\u00a0 So there’s that.\u00a0 And certain people in my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}