They’re heeeeerrrreeeee…….all our kids at home that is. So what to do, what to do? Of course if I ask my 3 year old twins what they want to do the answer is always in unison, “Disneyland!”. Every. Single. Day. Nope, no thanks. Not with a two hour wait for a 60 second ride on Dumbo with two impatient girls on a Mickey-induced sugar high. We will wait until September ladies.
What we did do at our house though is make a summer bucket list. The girls each get a turn once a week to pick a picture from the envelope and then we pick a date the following week to engage in that activity. Clearly I had to pick the activities to choose from otherwise we would have a bucket full of Disneyland with a bonus item as “eat cotton candy”. As usual, Mom to the rescue with a pretty awesome well-thought out bucket list of things we have never done.
Some of the activities we put on our summer 2014 bucket were
- Legoland
- Make a Fairy Garden
- Concert in the Park (this one made the cut because Hollywood U2 is playing and well faux Bono is better than no Bono)
- Butterfly Conservatory
- The San Diego Zoo
- Visiting the tide pools
- Backyard movie night
There is a catch though. For their bucket list, they must earn their special field trip. A simple kindness chart in our house for when they do something nice or kind for another either at home, at the park or in public, they get a star. 5 stars equals one wand. One wand awards a drawing from the envelope to pick their choice of the preselected day trips. It’s a win/win for us. They have fun making it into a daily contest who can be “more kind” that week and I’m the proud parent of the child that made a sweet and thoughtful gesture to another.
So we have to ask, what’s on your bucket list?
