We are just finishing our second week of summer, which means that our summer is officially 33% over now. 6 week summer holidays are wild. Last year summer went on forever, in a very unideal way.
The first week of summer was summer camps and work, kids had a good time and I got in the groove of lowered work expectations (and also took a day trip to London for work)
This week has been a holiday at home week. My brother is visiting from the states, and I've been off work for a week. It hasn't rained much. It's not been too warm either. We've done lots of local adventures and ticked many things off our summer fun list
We visited castles and a beach. We did stand up paddle boarding at the local reservoir. We've been swimming twice and are going again on Sunday. Today we did a family bike adventure
This is the summer of doing stuff and I am very tired. Unfortunately we are not yet at the age of not doing stuff. There is very little "relaxing" that happens. Toddlers need to get out and enjoy the world. Big kids start sniping at each other if they spend too much time at home.
I know the summer of doing stuff is a short lived thing, really. Getting out of the house by 9am because we've been up since 6am is not for the rest of my life. It's just for now. Kids going to bed at 7 and loving simple adventures of train rides and local walks and castle visits is not forever.
We went to a local castle on Sunday, which reopened on Saturday. We went back again on Thursday
"are you here to see the reopened hall?" asked the ticket seller "It only opened on Saturday!"
"yes, we saw it on Sunday" we said "and now we're back"
It's fun going to the same places. It's fun having memberships to local sites so that we can do 20 short visits without worrying about getting our money's worth.
Next week is back to summer camp and two weeks of work before another week of holiday. It feels like I've actually been out of work for a while and it's been fun to be off. However... I'll definitely find work less tiring than this holiday.
