Summer Plans and Goals

I've been thinking a lot about this summer.

Rayce has 3 more days of school left, and then he's off for three months.

I've been talking to him frequently about summer vacation, letting him know that it's not going to be a computer/tv/stay up all night free-for-all.

He says he understands, but I don't think he really gets it LOL.

I have goals for the summer.

For the kiddos and for myself.

Charlize will start preschool in the fall, and I need to work with her over the summer on shapes, letters, counting, and fine motor skills (scissors are very guarded in our house!).

I'll work with Liliya on the same things, it's never too early, as long as she's interested.

Rayce is doing amazingly well in school, but I don't want him to lose it all over the summer. He needs to continue reading books that challenge but interest him (he's currently reading at a beginning 3rd grade level!), and he needs to work on his math and handwriting skills. He wants to learn about money (which will be a great time to throw some easy fractions in there!) and telling time, and I want him to work on more challenging addition and subtraction.

TV and computer time is going to be limited. We've had quite a screen/electronic issue in this family, and I don't want that to continue. Rayce is going to have a hard time with this, but we've been cutting back more and more and I have faith he can break the habit. The girls shouldn't have a problem with it, they are usually very good at finding things to keep themselves busy. As for myself, I have been in front of the computer for maybe 2-3 hours a week lately, which is a *huge* improvement, as I used to spend hours every day online. I have been going days at a time without, which was unheard of for me.

This summer is about us. It's about spending loads of quality time together, really connecting with each other, living in the now, and growing as a family and individuals.

For myself, my goals are mainly health related.

I need to get my female issues taken care of, keep up on my doctor appointments and stop chickening out. I need to start eating healthier, as a lifestyle, not as a temporary weight loss fix. And I need to start being active. Of course I hope that all results in some weight loss, but if it doesn't, I'm ok with that, because my main goal is health.

My other goal for myself is to spend more time on Bonnie. Not Bonnie the mom or even Bonnie the girlfriend. But Bonnie, the individual. I want to seriously work on my photography and my scrapbooking and journaling/blogging. I need to make Bonnie important to me.