Listening to the birds just going for it reminds me of a childhood summer memory of sleeping on my grandparents patio and waking with the birds. I want to wake early this summer with a rich morning life.
The Summer
Early Morning Solace
Family Breakfast, Devotional and Chores
Outside recreation: gardening, adventures with friends. I am hoping to use our adventure pass, continue some extra-curricular sports, hit some new parks, and discover water features.
Lunch and music
Inside time: creative time and read alouds. I have an enormous list of books to read, many of them are rereads. We will get to a few.
Return to the Willows
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Princess and the Goblin
Swallows and Amazon’s book 3
Anne of Ingleside
Henry and Risby (Read Aloud Revival)
Mio, my Son
Peter Pan
Bridge to Terabithia
The Middle Moffatt
The Little House on the Prairie
What Katy Did
Stuart Little
My Father’s Dragon
Pinocchio
The Chrinicles of Naria
Mary Poppins Opens the Door
The Phantom Tollbooth
Sweep
Adventures with Waffles
Pollyanna
Our picture book collection
(I’ll keep adding and subtracting to the list, but here is a start)
Blessing Hour- making dinner together, laundry, cleaning the house, bathing the dog and all the things required to maintain and be good stewards of our blessings.
Family Dinner-This year I am going to get a Tagge Farms box with garden produce picked up weekly. I am a bit giddy over it.
Evening outside time- This includes probably a lot of basketball and family walks.
Early bedtime routine so lovely it can pull us away from outside. This maybe is too unrealistic to hope for. How do you entice sleep?
Our weekends are filling up with birthday plans and family reunions. I am grateful to live so near people I love.
Brenda, thank you for your awesome summer reading list and schedule. I love the idea of a "blessing hour." What a great way of looking at the normal tasks of life.