What I'm Hoping to Do This Summer (A Post in Progress)

(Summer 2017 update: if you've been around Guilty Chocoholic Mama for the last couple years or so: 1)thank you; 2)THANK YOU! 3)this list might look familiar. Because this is a post from a couple summer ago, just with a few updates. What I hoped to do last summer and the summer before that is still pretty much what I hope to do during this one, so I figured, why reinvent the wheel? Okay? Good. Also, thank you.)

I am not a summer person. 

There. I said it. 

Yes, I hear that "whaaaat?!"

I love winter. There. I said that, too. 

The reason I love winter is a subject for another post. (Working title: "Why I Love Winter.")

But oh, summer, you give me hope that I might...

1. Sleep. Also, sleep in.

2. Not pack school lunches.

3. Not administer after-school therapy to my daughters.

4. Not sympathize with my eighth-grader about the frustrations of life as a middle-schooler and why in the world people cannot, for the love of basic human decency, walk on the correct side of the hallway.

5. Eat ice cream. Repeat.

6. See Michigan's Mackinac "Mighty Mac" Bridge. Possibly while eating ice cream.

7. Eat s'mores by the campfire. And remember: if you only have one, it's not a s'more. It's only a some. Don't settle for some.
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8. Pick Michigan blueberries. Eat them straight up by the pound, then turn a bunch more into Blueberry Thing.

9. Try that "family dinner" thing I've heard so much about. I understand it involves all the people in a family sitting at the same table at the same time eating the same thing.

10. Listen to "Do It Again" and pretty much everything else by Elevation Worship.

11. Read. Possibly a novel. At least a magazine.

12. Go the lake. Stop for ice cream on the way. (Recurring theme alert.)

13. Feel sorry for my poor husband when he still has to leap out of bed at 5:30. Do not, however, feel sorry enough to leap out with him.

14. Get ready for a new season of women's Bible study. (Looking for a little guidance on how to start a group yourself? Check out this post.)

15. Hang sheets on the clothesline and inhale the clean-air scent when I slide into a freshly-made bed that night. Joy upon joy.

16. On one of the season's hottest days, slurp Peppermint Patty Frozen Hot Chocolate while watching Frozen with my daughters. (Just throw about a cup of crushed ice, 1/2 cup very cold or partially frozen milk or--even better--evaporated milk, a couple tablespoons chocolate syrup, one or two chopped peppermint patties, and a couple drops peppermint extract into the blender. Whir up and add more ice or milk as needed to make it slushy. Pulse in a little or a lot of frozen non-dairy whipped topping if you're not opposed to that sort of thing. Pour into a glass, top with whipped cream from an aerosol can if you're not opposed to that sort of thing, and drizzle on some chocolate syrup.) No central air? No problem! 

17. Tie-in to #16: listen to The Piano Guys 100% fabulous version of "Let It Go."

18. Not have to worry about what kind of day my daughters are having when they're away from me at school.

19. Make absolutely to-die-for-even-though-it's-not-chocolate lemon frozen yogurt.

20. Sit on the porch swing during a rainstorm and listen to the rain on the roof. 

What's on your summer hope-to-do list? 
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