Planning for Summer?

I have 2 vacations planned already for this summer. The first trip is actually in 2 weeks to the west coast of Florida, where I plan to meet up with Michelle Bradshaw! Should be a fun time! I'll be there for 2 glorious weeks of sun and fun at the beach. I have a few other friends and lots of family to see while we are there, but mostly we plan on doing not much of anything.

I'm going to London in July with my daughter. She is a high school English teacher and is taking a group of 11th grade students there for a Tour of English Literature sites. Think Shakespeare, Harry Potter, etc. I will be a chaperone, but with 4 adults and only 9 students, we're are not expecting any trouble. Needless to say, I've already started planning my scrapbook. lol
 
I plan nothing except 1 camping trip a summer. MY teens as well would much rather be on the computer than doing anything else and Its more work for me to get them up and moving so I just let them do what they like. I guess I am a bad mom.... :/
 
Awww, you're not a bad mom Kim! Trust me, when Cheyanne's not playing basketball she's glued to her laptop, Roku, or iPhone! And at our place on the lake we have wifi AND cable TV ;) hehe
 
xboxmom said:
I plan nothing except 1 camping trip a summer. MY teens as well would much rather be on the computer than doing anything else and Its more work for me to get them up and moving so I just let them do what they like. I guess I am a bad mom.... :/
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I guess I'm a bad mom too then.... sometimes it's just not a battle I want to fight. ;) Keep trying though.... last weekend my teenage boys came hiking with me with no resistance whatsoever! :)
 
We have to plan because we get such limited time together. Charles is doing a drama camp in Nirth Dakota all of June, so we won't get him until all of that is finished. We'll still get our five weeks, but that will cut into time with his grandparents that live down here, so I might let him sneak off with them extra while he's here. We're going to New Orleans sometime in July and we'll probably hit up Tampa at least once. We do a bucket list every summer and we all pick things we want to come- movies, comic book stores, beach, etc.

As far as screen time, I've had a rule for the past several years that there are no more than two hours of screen time during the day. This goes for both of us, lol. Otherwise I'm sure he and I would be plopped in front of screens all day long. This way we go to the park every day, swim most days, stuff like that. We do projects like building race tracks and science projects or crafty things from Pinterest. I'm glad he still really likes to hang out with us. I'm sure that won't last forever.
 
The screentime issue is at our house, too! At least with the two littles, I can still limit them without too much resistance. But with the big one....he loves his games. And it's social he says because he plays with friends online. Otherwise I bribe them with boba tea and ice cream, lol.
 
It sounds like we all have the issue of screen time. My boys have 2 hours on school days. On the weekends, they get an extra 45 minute turn (they get 45 minute turns and then have to at least get up and move around!).
It's hard because I spend a lot of time on the computer, so I feel like such a hypocrite telling them they can't!
 
I hear you Tammy! That's why I really try to limit my own screen time during the day. We do family screen time during the evenings, watching a movie or the guys will game together. But during the day I really try to limit myself. I set a timer just like he does. It makes me more efficient about my time. And it's funny watching his thought process on how to spend his screen time. Should he play a game or watch America's Dumbest Criminals? Decisions, decisions :) He very meticulously plans it out first thing in the morning and writes it down. I wish he'd be that organized with schoolwork....
 
I don't put limits on screen time anymore. Cheyanne is so active and a straight A student so it's not an issue as far as I'm concerned. Plus I'm on the computer 10+ hours a day between my job and scrapping (I work from home and it requires a computer 100% of the time; in fact, I'm working right now and checking in while some work downloads ;) ) LOL
 
That's the tough part. We are on the computer just as much, lol. I like the idea of a timer, Jen! I might have to implement that in our house. Or it might turn out like an alarm clock and I would snooze 10 times, lol...
 
We are planning a trip to Memphis in June. Going to take the two oldest grandkids with us. I have never been so we will plan on seeing Graceland and Alana wants to take in the zoo. Taylor doesn't care as long as we are away from home. He is my Xbox gamer but even he gets tired of sitting and playing the games. I think he is just ready to get out and away for a little while.
 
I gave up even trying to limit screen time - my daughter is an introvert and her room is where she can recharge and relax.

She has a couple different weeks of band camps. We've rented a home literally on a park in Bellingham Washington for almost a week, I'll take my daughter up to Toronto to visit my parents (hubby will have used vacation on previously mentioned vaca), we'll do a night on the coast before her band camp as one of them is a sleepover camp at the coast, we do the zoo, we explore parts of the city, we do a bit of easy hiking, we go out for fun lunch in downtown since we're not normally downtown... this summer I have to plan around getting her wisdom teeth out. I'm really nervous for it because she has really bad tmj with a jaw that locks and I'm worried about how long her recovery will take for the jaw. Sigh.
 
TraceyMonette said:
I gave up even trying to limit screen time - my daughter is an introvert and her room is where she can recharge and relax.

She has a couple different weeks of band camps. We've rented a home literally on a park in Bellingham Washington for almost a week, I'll take my daughter up to Toronto to visit my parents (hubby will have used vacation on previously mentioned vaca), we'll do a night on the coast before her band camp as one of them is a sleepover camp at the coast, we do the zoo, we explore parts of the city, we do a bit of easy hiking, we go out for fun lunch in downtown since we're not normally downtown... this summer I have to plan around getting her wisdom teeth out. I'm really nervous for it because she has really bad tmj with a jaw that locks and I'm worried about how long her recovery will take for the jaw. Sigh.
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I'm reading this and nodding along with almost all of it!

The introvert (my son) and limiting his screen time.
The wisdom teeth (same son) have to be removed this summer too - his bottom ones anyway, they are too close to facial nerves.
The band (again, son) and we are buying him his own trombone for his birthday next week! He is going to FLIP OUT!

and finally, Toronto!!! I live about an hour by car from Toronto! :)
 
JustTrace said:
I'm reading this and nodding along with almost all of it!

The introvert (my son) and limiting his screen time.
The wisdom teeth (same son) have to be removed this summer too - his bottom ones anyway, they are too close to facial nerves.
The band (again, son) and we are buying him his own trombone for his birthday next week! He is going to FLIP OUT!

and finally, Toronto!!! I live about an hour by car from Toronto! :)
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We bought our daughter (along with my dad) a great flute a couple Christmas's ago. It is her most treasured possession. Your son will indeed flip out. What a great moment it will be when he finds out.

I was just in Toronto last week, but that was for my sister's Celebration of Life (she died from Pancreatic cancer in the fall and wanted that gathering done in the spring when the world was getting beautiful again).

Which city are you actually in?
 
Usually we don't do big vacations in the summer but this year we are flying from Idaho to Buffalo NY and renting a car then driving all the way back home to see the country. It will take most of the month of June. Other than that we don't plan anything. We live life on the fly. We have a pool four doors down so I know the kids will be there everyday. We do love to float the Boise river at least once a week, if not more. We just to have fun, make memories and keep things low-key as much as possible. I hate rigorous schedules. It makes me uptight, the whole school year has to be structured, summer can be just be fun!
 
TraceyMonette said:
We bought our daughter (along with my dad) a great flute a couple Christmas's ago. It is her most treasured possession. Your son will indeed flip out. What a great moment it will be when he finds out.

I was just in Toronto last week, but that was for my sister's Celebration of Life (she died from Pancreatic cancer in the fall and wanted that gathering done in the spring when the world was getting beautiful again).

Which city are you actually in?
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So sorry for your loss Tracey ( another thing we have in common...our names!)

I am in Stoney Creek. Just between Hamilton and Grimsby.
 
I found out last week that I was chosen, along with 2 fellow teachers, to attend a 5 day sustainability teachers' academy at Flathead Lake, Montana in August! OMG! It's all expense paid, plus they pay us each $1000 to attend... $700 after we finish the academy plus an additional $300 after we implement a sustainability project in our school/community. SO excited! I think we are going to stay for a couple of extra days after the academy to do some more touristy stuff, too. :)
 
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