Mission: Summer Memories

I find it hard to believe that I as I sit here writing this blog, my boys are half way through the last day of school.  It seems as if just yesterday they were getting ready for the first day of school & we were putting summer vacation behind us for the exciting school year that laid ahead.

 I am not sure where time goes, but I've come to realize that my boys are getting older & summer vacation is not as easy as it use to be.  When they were little we use to sit around and play all day. Now if we are home, they are going to play alright; they are going to play video games, computer games, iPad games, and maybe some board games that they will invite me to play with them.  It seems that in past summers, even when I have made really good plans, summer still comes and goes before we have made really good memories.  And if I'm being honest, that's not the kind of summer I want.  I realize now more than ever (& maybe it's because in a couple of weeks I will have been a mommy for a whole decade) that my children are growing way quicker than I would like & I am not having much success at stopping that growth.  So this summer I have a different sort of plan & I have worked really hard on putting it together.  We are going to make a Summer Passport to Fun tomorrow morning.  The 4 of us (the boys, Emily & myself) will sit down with all my list of places, all my descriptions, all my distances from the house & we will collaborate on what we want to do this summer.  Our passports will be separated in to short adventures, long adventures, outdoor adventures, indoor adventures, rainy day fun & bible challenges.  We will visit historical land sites, aquariums, museums, rural beaches, have water balloon fights, do science experiments, scavenger hunts & the list goes on & on.  After we decided what we want, we will make our Passports, with pictures & all, and finally we will mark up our family calendar with our plans.  We will pray together as a family that our plans work with God's plans for us this summer & that he guards us on this extraordinary summer of making memories.  I know that we will not accomplish our entire Passports because my boys, they are big dreamers just like me.  They will fill those passports with much more than we will be able to do.  But the point is that we will have a starting point, a guide to lead us this summer & where ever we end up & what ever we end up doing we will be doing it together & we will be making memories together.  I am so excited about this summer & endless possibilities of memories to be made.  I can't wait to see all the pictures we take & look back on them & go "Wow, that was one great summer!"  Okay, well maybe I'm lying just a little bit, I can wait...but one day I'm going to love having all those pictures to look at.  

I hope you & your family have a wonderful & blessed summer vacation.  I pray you find a lot of things to do, whether it be at home or some far away place. Mainly I pray that you do it as a family & that you enjoy making the memories that will last a lifetime.  Today I am linking up at Time Warp Wife on Titus 2sdays.  Please jump on over there & read some of the other link ups.  I know your life will blessed for what you read, as mine always is!  Enjoy your Tuesday :)