{"id":27529,"date":"2015-06-02T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=27529"},"modified":"2015-06-03T07:41:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:41:56","slug":"five-things-to-do-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=27529","title":{"rendered":"Five Things to Do This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many times we have great plans for those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, but things just don’t work out.\u00a0 All the time we thought we would have slips away, and we find ourselves at the end of the season and realize that maybe we didn’t do as much as we thought we would.<\/h3>\n

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I know that many of you are making those to-do lists with your families right now, and so I have five things you might want to consider adding to your lists.\u00a0 The nice thing about this to-do list is that everything is fun.\u00a0 Not one chore is listed.\u00a0 Woo-hoo!!!<\/h3>\n

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\"Farm<\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0 Go shopping in a farm store<\/strong><\/em><\/span> – Last year my brother and I went browsing in a farm store, and I found some adorable things to use in a summer vignette for our kitchen table.\u00a0 Use your imaginations, and you might come up with a cute vignette on your own.\u00a0 A farm store is a real learning experience for a child who hasn’t visited a working farm before.\u00a0 There are lots of things there to learn about.\u00a0 It’s like a mini school lesson, and they won’t even realize it.<\/h3>\n

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\"Blackberry<\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0 Pick berries and m<\/strong><\/em>ake jam<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. – If you have kids,\u00a0 I bet they would love to go to a berry farm and pick blackberries, blueberries, or strawberries.\u00a0 Then together you can make some jam to have for now and then can some to have on a cold winter school morning.\u00a0 Don’t be scared by this one.\u00a0 I had never made jam until I followed this recipe<\/a> and made blackberry jam just a few months ago.<\/h3>\n

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\"Horsey<\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0 Go on a bicycle picnic.<\/strong><\/em><\/span> – Fill a backpack with a picnic lunch and ride your bicycles to a great spot for a summer picnic.\u00a0 Maybe you have a bicycle trail in your area that you haven’t been to or maybe it’s a park or nature area.\u00a0 Here in Lexington, we have a nature area called McConnell’s Springs, which was the exact spot where Lexington was founded.\u00a0 There are nature trails and exhibits that adults and kids love.\u00a0 I often will take a small lunch and cycle to one of the many horse farms here and just eat while watching the horses graze in the fields.\u00a0 It’s a great way to spend an afternoon.\u00a0 Be sure to wear your helmets.<\/h3>\n

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4.\u00a0 Host a “movie on the lawn” party<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Jordan and Yankee have had three of these parties in their back yard at the end of summer.\u00a0 Pick a movie that will appeal to both kids and adults, make theme-related invitations, and serve snacks that go along with the movie’s theme.\u00a0 You can learn how to do it here <\/a>here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

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5.\u00a0 Make ice cream the old-fashioned way<\/strong><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 Maybe I’m dating myself here, but when I was little, if we wanted homemade ice cream, we had to work for it as in turning the crank to make the sweetly flavored cream turn into real ice cream.\u00a0 What a miracle that was!!!\u00a0 I know it would be much easier to just add ingredients to a little ice cream churn and plug it in, but teaching the kids how to work for this delicious reward is sooooo worth it.\u00a0 If you just don’t happen to own a manual ice cream maker, you can buy one here<\/a>.\u00a0 The nice thing about this churn is that it is both manual and electric.\u00a0 In other words, if you get tired, just plug it in.<\/h3>\n

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I hope that there’s at least one idea here that you can use this summer.\u00a0 Summer is all about the memories you make, and the way you spend your time with the ones you love.\u00a0 Make the most of it.<\/h3>\n

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Thanks so much for stopping in.<\/h3>\n

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Take care.<\/h3>\n

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