It is summer time, my kids are out of school & enjoying staying up late & getting to sleep in.
I remember summer break when I was a kid. Staying outside into the dark to play hide-n-seek with the neighbor kids. Sitting on our porch laughing & catching June bugs that flew around us in the porch light. Just getting to be a kid...
Going camping at least once before school started up again & getting to go visit family we hadn't seen since the holidays.
Those were the days...
I hope to make my children's summers memorable. We usually try to take a family vacation or go do something fun before the school year starts. We have cookouts with family or hang out at the park. Or we just hang out at the pool at our apartment.
Most of our family lives here in the same city, so we do not get to travel too far. My oldest brother & his family lives about 6 hours away & sometimes we get to see them at least once during the summer.
My kids will never get to know what it is like to pack up at 5:00am into a Buick, with one kid in the back window, one laying across the backseat & one laying in the floorboard on a makeshift bed. Singing silly songs as we go along for the ride.
Nowadays, riding in the back window is frowned upon...lol
I would love to hear of others' summer time traditions.
As a child summer was my favorite time of year.
We either went camping or to visit relatives we did not normally get to see. I remember piling into the back of my dad's Toyota pickup underneath the topper, until we got a silver Buick that we would stretch out in the back seat of & my little brother would lay in the back window, & that is how we traveled.
We camped out in a tent. Sometimes my older brother would sleep in a hammock. We swam, fished, cooked out, roasted marshmallows & hot dogs & just have the best time ever. I have always wanted to pass this tradition on to my own children. Share stories by the campfire, roast marshmallows, swim & fish. I love sleeping in a tent & my girls do not seem to mind it a bit.
My parents purchased a camper trailer last summer, so we have taken advantage of going out camping as often as we can. Last summer we went to Palo Duro Canyon & an RV Park not far from Turner Falls & an RV park in Oklahoma City right before school started. This summer we have already stayed in Palo Duro Canyon & this weekend we are venturing out to Fort Richardson in Jacsboro,TX for the 4th of July. I know we are going to have a blast!
I hope everyone has an awesome & safe 4th of July!
