Ideal Summer

What is an ideal summer? This should be an easy question to answer, right? You’d think so, but it’s NOT! I like summer, cicadas sing here in the south, the weather is typically nice although it’s very hot and humid. It’s all in what you get used to.  There is quite a bit to do when you live 2 hours from the mountains to the west and 3 hours from the beach in the east.  Not to mention all the activities around like parks, amusement parks, hiking trails, lakes, rivers, parks, etc..... So, an ideal summer is sort of hard to figure out.  

I’ve had some fairly awesome summer experiences in my lifetime.  Going on 2 week camping trips with my parents to the Northeastern US and another one the Northern-Midwestern states of the US. I got to spend a summer with my dad in California, that was interesting.  So, I’ve had some good times.  

Since I’ve gotten older, it’s been difficult to do the fun stuff.  I mean vacations are great, but when you have 3 kids, a limited income, let’s face it, vacations are far and few in between.  We have always tried to make summers great, since it’s the only extended time we don’t do school.  We do go out on Paw-paw’s boat sometimes,  ride to the mountains or go to visit Nana and Grandaddy from time to time.  Those things may sound really boring to you, however to me, they are awesome. 

My ideal summer for me is to just chill!  Between running our business, homeschooling my kids, cooking, cleaning house and all that goes with it, just doing nothing sounds like bliss.  Making time to spend with my friends and getting some girl time are rare for me, so doing those, WONDERFUL!
By the time we’re done with school for the year, my feet are dragging, so summer is spent recuperating.  That’s my ideal summer, just relaxing and taking my time to do the things I need to do. It’s not exciting by any means, however, it fulfills my needs.  So what is your ideal summer, just chillin’ or cramming and rushing to fit it all in?