What summer does to me

Icecreammmmmm, I've been eating way too much of you this week! Why oh why do you have to be so good? Honestly peeps, you should have seen the plate (yes plate not bowl, it's bigger!) of ice cream I had earlier this week. Two giant scoops of vanilla and two giant scoops of chocolate topped with a flake and a slice of cake. Nothing for the faint hearted here! If I keep going like this I will burst out of my pants any day.  

  I know I know you are jealous right! Why wouldn't you be of my wicked sunburn / tan line. I love how it looks when I wear sleeveless tops. It just finishes off my outfit don't you think. hmmm. All I need now are sock tan lines. Groovy.  

  Playing tennis with the kiddies, barefoot while wearing Emily's sunhat. Who cares if it is way too small for me, it's the cutest little sunhat ever and we had fun

Summer also makes me do creepy poses over little people. Not sure what I am on about? Have a look at this next photo.  

  She was actually taking pictures of our shadows... that was until she got distracted by cow poop and decided to start taking pictures of that instead. Don't believe me. Look.  

  cow poop on my blog...proud moment here people! Proud moment. aaaaaaand moving on.  

Summer also makes me wrap parcels in the park.

This particular "parcel" requested to be wrapped up even more.

I wasn't too bothered about my parcel wrapping skills here

but someone who will be able to tell you all about them is

 Angela from The Harmon Baby Farm

She was the winner of my giveaway a few weeks back and  has written the

most adorable post about receiving her "Royal Mail".

Go and read it here and say hi to her while you are there will you.

Doesn't she rock those earrings!

OK and with that this icecream eating, tanlined, tiny sunhat wearing, creepy posing,

poop posting, parcel wrapping

LADY

is saying

Have a good weekend!!

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I plan to have a great summer!

Today is the last day of school here in England.

When they go back in September I'll have a child in year 4 and one in year 1.

Eeeek,why do they have to grow up so fast!

Until then though we have six weeks of summer holidays.

Six weeks.

I don't know if I am excited or scared.

You see last summer I had all my friends nearby and we all met up

about every other day so our kiddies could play and we had a fantastic summer.

This year we moved and my friends are a bit too far away to do

those meet ups.

I haven't really met any any other mums yet.

Making new friends is HARD.

Nevertheless I do want to have a good summer and not hear

 "what can we do, I'm booooooored" every five minutes.

I would love to do something arty crafty and have fun each day

 so for the past couple of days I've been

looking for some good ideas of what we can make / do.

Last year we made masks

This is something we are definitely doing again this year, They not only loved decorating

their masks but they also had some good imaginative play after.

Another hit last year was making puffy paint pictures

We'll make some more of these masterpieces this summer.

A few other things I want to do with them this summer are

Make paper plate sun catchers

Make ice cream cloud dough

Do some scratch art

Make salt dough necklaces

Make some kites

Do some egg carton painting

Make salty watercolour paintings

Make kool aid play dough

Make home made bubbles

Paint with water

Paint rocks

Make cress head people

Make collages

Decorate water bottles

Make cardboard houses for the Lego people / little ponies

Make summer journals and write in them every day

Make jewellery

Make and decorate a trinket box

Make waffles

Make and decorate cupcakes

Make home made ice cream and ice lollies

Bake cookies

Make loads of smoothies

Make lemonade

Bake a cake and have a party for no reason

Make a summer play list and play the songs every day

Learn a dance routine to a favourite song

Go on a nature scavenger hunt

Go Geocaching

Go for picnics

Go to the zoo

Go on an ABC photo walk

Let the kids play in a stream

Go fossil hunting

Go to the play park

Have water balloon fights

Go to the beach

Make sandcastles

And if mother nature decides to give us some sun

Have the pool up in the garden!

Phew, looks like we ARE going to be busy.

Well I am ready for it.

Bring it on!

Have a great summer my friends!.

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fun in the sun

I don't know what it's like at your house,

but when my kiddies come home from school they are famished!

First thing they do when they get through the door is raid the cupboard for

goodies and after school snacks.

Must be all the learning that makes them so hungry.

clever little peanuts.

Yesterday the sun remembered it was in fact summer in England

so instead of having the kiddies indoors I decided to treat them to an

after school picnic.

They loved it!

Once their little bellies were all filled Dylan went off to play ball tag

with some friends and Emily and me played "the princess and the witch", me

being the witch of course!

It was loads of fun.

We'll de doing this again soon.

Have a great weekend my lovely friends!

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