This WEATHER is driving me bonkers. Scattered, severe, isolated, blah blah blah thunderstorms, with intermittent pockets of humidity and heat. Some sunshine. Nothing predictable! The beach bum in me is dying. I bought the season pass and I want to use it.
Sunday: watching the weather like a hawk, whenever the sun peeked out, me: “Everybody, outside!!!!!!” It worked. Mostly.
In the morning, I went to the Korean Spa to sweat for about 3 hours and that made me so tired! Came home, the kids happened to also be tired so the three of us took a nap. Dreamy… We have never practiced co-sleeping but I gotta say, there is something special about listening to your child’s breath while they are sleeping.
In the evening, L and I went to celebrate the 18th birthday and high school graduation of my good friends’ kids (twins). When her and I met, the kids were… Six years old? And now they are eighteen and starting a new chapter of their lives. God bless.
Monday (today). Wonky weather continues. Even as I type this, I hear distant thunder. However, today had a bigger promise of sunshine so we decided to take our chances at the beach. And we lucked out! Sunny albeit a bit windy with a bit of an ominous background (as you can see in the picture). But that storm moved toward New York, I think.
Observations on summer so far and SAHMom-ing:
- I feel like I haven’t done anything “cool” with them yet. Except the beach and nature reserves. No science experiments, or lemonade stands, or making slime (shudders), or other cool craft projects. Coloring-yes, L is very much into that, on her own volition. R is not interested, at all. On the other hand, none of this stuff is on our summer wishlist so I should just chill.
- Time outside: a big pat on the back for myself! I am set on not wasting our summer indoors. Even when the weather wasn’t ideal we got out. My car is packed to the gills with necessities for sunny and rainy weather. I got some resistance from both of them a few times but I think I said something along the lines: “it’s summer, we are going outside.” And we did.
- Mental health: doing okay. Being at home with a 3 and 5 year old is hard. That is why it’s important for us to get out into nature or do an activity.
- Reading: my last two fiction books were so BLAH. I gave up on one and gritted my teeth through another. But now I am reading a non-fiction book that reads like a novel: A Place Called Home by David Ambroz. I’m flying through it, it’s incredible.
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