So we’re two weeks into summer break and Ladybug and I are already busy knocking out our Summer Bucket Lists.
Last year (inspired by the back of a Chick-fil-A kid’s meal bag), my daughter took a literal bucket and wrote all her summer must-dos on wooden clothespins and clipped them around the outside of the bucket. As we completed each activity, she tossed the clothespins into the bucket. She did it again this year and I decided to join her. My goals are modest, but important to me.
One of the reasons I love a bucket list is it makes you more intentional with those fleeting summer days. I don’t want to look up and realize we haven’t really enjoyed our time together and it’s already time to buy a million dollar’s worth of supplies for the new school year.
So, here goes…
Ladybug’s 2013 Summer Bucket List:
Eat crab legs (I kid you not)
Eat more crab legs
Take my BFFs to Mimi’s house (the kids love playing in the country)
Have a picnic
Babysit (maybe we should put the Red Cross babysitter’s class on the list!)
Have a sleepover
Have a sleepover
Have a sleepover (this list could go on)
Drink lemonade
Eat tacos on the back porch
Buy ice cream from the ice cream truck
Shannon’s 2013 Summer Bucket List:
Eat at Crepes Paulette and various other food truck like Lo’s Sweet Treats
Read, read, read and win prizes in FPL’s Summer Reading Club
Go to the Highway 112 Drive-in
Make something with Ladybug from Pinterest
Go watch the NWA Naturals play
Spend more time focusing on my daughter’s interests (Animaniacs, anyone?)
Spend more time focusing on my husband (more dates)
Thoroughly enjoy our family’s vacation week together, no electronics
Make — and eat — lots of salsa and boiled shrimp
Float the lazy river at the new Rogers Aquatic Center
Go to a Taylor Swift concert with Ladybug (We already have tickets!)
Shannon Magsam is mom to 11-year-old Ladybug, married to Ladybug’s dad, John, and co-founder of nwaMotherlode.com. To read previously published installments of Life With Ladybug, click here.
