Even though we're now fully entrenched in fall-type activities - what with school starting, football season in full swing, chillier weather, leaves changing - I thought maybe I'd write a little about what a great summer we had. It really was pretty terrific! The list we put together in June has every activity minus one - Canterbury Park - checked off. Truthfully I don't think we should have to shoulder all the blame for not getting to the race track where we fully intended to teach our kids to gamble. When the MN gov't shut down they closed Canterbury Park so many of the available weekends were off the table. We were really hoping to go to some of the funny races - camels, wiener dogs, ostriches - not the horses and not to gamble ... much. Whatever. It's not a huge loss and we can always go next year. It just would have been nice to see every box checked off, ya know? But, we added some stuff to the list and we did a bunch of them more than once so I think we're all good. Plus the boys have tangible evidence that we had fun and that we did cool stuff with them. So now when they're all like "you never let us do anything fun" we can just march them to the list and show them. Maybe I'll leave the list up forever. What do ya think about that?
Really though, they had a great summer. They LOVED the camps they were in. They LOVED spending a bunch of time with G&G Schally. They LOVED the trips to Iowa to see their cousins and Grandma Becky and everyone. Camping was great. Records for s'more eating were set. Eli mastered bike riding. They both swim like little fish. They learned to golf ... kinda. They made new friends. Almost every day was spent outside. They were dirty and exhausted and super happy. Exactly what summer should be all about.
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