SUMMERTIME!!!!

School is out for the summer!  We have our grandsons, ages 7 and 4, two to three times a week.  It has been a rainy summer so far which is challenging.  We found an indoor playground at our local church that is open to the public during the week.  We visit there once a week.  We are usually the only ones there and the boys love it.  Papa "haunts" them and we play chase.

In the afternoons, we pull out the sleeper sofa in the living room, make a big bunch of popcorn and watch a movie.  They just want us to sit with them and be with them.  Sometimes it becomes a tumbling mat!  You know how boys can't sit still!  And that's okay as long as nothing gets broke.  

We have a garden.  We go out once a day and check the plants.  They pick what's ripe but it doesn't make it in the house.  It is eaten on the way which is what we love!  We have chickens and they check for eggs each day.  

The boys love to help.  It's smoothies or milkshakes in the afternoons and our 4 year old knows the ingredients and how to make them.  He loves to help unload the dishwasher, the washer and dryer and sometimes helps me vacuum.  

Today is water day.  I am washing windows and that will be their "chore" for the day.  They will make a mess but that just shows that you had fun!  

We don't plan a lot.  Maybe a day with the cousins or going out to eat.  They love having down time and just being around us.  We love being around them.  I read one time that they may not remember everything you did but they will remember how they felt....loved, secure, listened to, cared for.  That's our goal!






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