thinking about summer
I haven’t been posting much. I’m not even that busy. Honestly, since Lilia started school, I’ve been trying to figure out a routine– but something (colds, appointments, etc) usually disrupts it, so I haven’t worked one out. She only has a few weeks left to this school year, so hopefully I will figure it out in the fall. We only have two plans for summer, but they are good ones! First, in mid-June, we hope to go to the 2010 Great Hudson River Revival in Croton-on-Hudson, NY– just for a weekend. And second, in July, we’re going to Maine for a little less than a week– first to a little town called Stonington, and then on to Portland, to visit the E family, who relocated from Philadelphia over a year ago.
The rest of the summer, I’m not sure what we’ll do. We still have a membership to the Please Touch Museum, for too hot or rainy days. Last year, when I used a trip to Sesame Place as potty-training bribery, I ended up buying us all memberships, because they had a deal that got us in last year and all of this year too. I bought the memberships before we had ever been there, and when we got there, I realized I don’t love it. I don’t know if I really even like it. But we only went the one time last year, and Lilia did like it. They have a lot of water activities… which would mean I’d have to wear my bathing suit in public. Even if we only go once or twice, the price was still worth it. Maybe we’ll check that out on a weekday after school is over, and if we like it enough, we could go weekly.
And then I’m thinking that we should go explore Philadelphia. Since I started working every other weekend, Joe and Lilia have been exploring and having grand adventures. I need to have some grand adventures with her in center city while he is at work. She’s four, she doesn’t need the stroller, I don’t need to carry a diaper bag anymore… we’ll pack a lunch, take the train, and explore. I have a feeling it won’t be as easy as that.