My Summer Bucket List

Here’s a list of things I want to do this summer. Many of them are things I’d like to do numerous times. Most of them are things I want to do with the whole family, some with just the kids. There are also a few I want to do just with husband and/or friends … because it’s important to take care of myself and my adult relationships too!!!

1. Plant a garden
2. Splash in rain puddles
3. See fireworks
4. Go to Cedar Point
5. Have a lemonade stand
6. Play every game in the game closet
7. Sell the house and move into new house
8. Spend a week on Tawas Bay
9. Dodge Park Beach
10. Dino craft party (aka Dino Dan’s Diorama Dig)
11. Play mini golf
12. Catch a firefly
13. Spend a day at the Detroit Zoo
14. See Dinosauria at the Detroit Zoo
15. Go to Waterford Oaks splash park
16. Go kayaking
17. Go on a family bike ride
18. Use sidewalk chalk
19. Have Henry go to Safety Town
20. Take the kids to swim lessons
21. Spend a day at Kensington splash park and beach
22. Go to Hess-Hathaway Park
23. Go to Beverly Park
24. Go to Booth Park
25. Get ice cream in our pjs
26. Have Henry participate in a summer reading challenge at the library
27. play at Waterford Oaks park
28. Go to the Birmingham fair
29. Go to the hot air balloon festival in Howell
30. Go to a Wet-n-Wild Wednesday in Rochester Hills
31. Start a “cross-over” blog … life as a child therapist with 2 kids
32. See “Cars 2”
33. See “Winnie the Pooh”
34. Have a “come over and play outside” day
35. Create & go on a photo scavenger hunt
36. Take Henry through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel
37. Go on a date with my husband
38. Have an “adults only” movie &/or game night with friends
39. Clean out the garage
40. Clean out the crawl space
41. Have a day with just my sister
42. Go to a Tiger’s Game
43. Go to the Cranbrook Science Center
44. Spend the day in Northville … Rebecca’s, Bees Knees, & the park
45. Play at Marshbank park
46. Daytime potty train both kids
47. Spend a day in Detroit … Riverwalk and the Heidelburg project
48. Take the kids and my mom to the Hands On Museum in A2
49. Go to the Detroit Science Center
50. Stay healthy … so that I can actually accomplish all of this!!

I know, it’s a bit ambitious … but intentionality can work wonders! (plus, I’m starting off with 15 already accomplished!  those are the ones that are crossed out)