A Summer “Bucket List”

30 Things I Vow to Do This Summer*

1. Spend time outdoors every day, rain or shine!
2. Gather everything needed for spontaneous beach or park trips and keep in the car so we’re ready to go at a moment’s notice.
3. Go strawberry picking…then make freezer jam!
4. Take Shane tenting camping.
5. Keep trying to make myself summer skirts…eventually I’ll get one right!
6. Visit the beach (ocean or lake) at least once a week.
7. Try as many new-to-us vegetables and fruits as I can find from local farmer’s markets.
8. Make tomato sauce from scratch from our own tomatoes.
9. During a summer shower, run outside to jump in puddles and dance in the rain.
10. Relax in front of a campfire and enjoy s’mores.
11. Begin a family quest in search of the best local ice cream stand.
12. Explore tide pools.
13. Get the fuuny ice-cream-ball-maker-thing out of attic and try making ice cream!
14. Wear a swimsuit without making a degrading comment about my body.
15. Wake up after midnight to view the Perseid meteor shower in August.
16. Make plenty of homemade pizzas — on the grill!
17. Go to our town’s annual outdoor music festival.
18. Finish planting the new perennial garden by our apartment steps.
19. Pick flowers from the garden each week and bring them inside to enjoy.
20. Remember to use sunscreen on myself, not just on my son.
21. Push Shane’s bedtime back one night, and head outside to chase fireflies around the yard.
22. During a heat wave, go out for ice cream instead of dinner!
23. Get a pedicure…then keep my tootsies flip-flop ready all summer long.
24. Spend a morning exploring a flea market.
25. Plan a few special date nights with my husband – even if we aren’t able to leave the house.
26. Make a sandcastle, and stay at the beach long enough to watch the tide come in to reclaim it.
27. Keep the freezer stocked with homemade frozen pops, using the same molds my mom had used when I was a child.
28. Make an effort to find time each day for writing.
29. Take Shane on a train ride from a neighboring town to the beach for the day.
30. Work on a bucket list for autumn!

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*This prompt was borrowed from last Thursday’s Writer’s Workshop,
hosted weekly on Mama’s Losin’ It.
(I had this half-written in my draft folder…and then forgot all about it until this morning. Oops…!).