why am I feeling the need to make these last weeks of summer "count"?
I know where you are coming from. STBXW was always frustrated with me when it came to summer. She always said I did "too much" with the girls. She'd rather just go to the campground, sit on the porch with her mom and turn them loose. That's what her mom and dad did. They just sat there, while STBXW was off doing whatever.
It's how we were raised. I grew up doing stuff. Games. Swimming parties. Amusement parks.
So that's a major difference and I just have more energy.
Here's the other thing -- I think you see this too -- you only get to see them grow up once.
D11 and D7 will never be D11 and D7 again. I really feel it with D11. I have a picture of the three of us at Great America last summer. It's one of my profile pics on FB. D11 was 10 and still looked like a kid. She's not a kid anymore. She wears a bra and started having her period and the teen issues are popping up.
Her childhood is over and pretty soon hanging out with dad won't be cool.
So I'm like you. I want to make summer "count." Of course, the resources are a problem now. I have them next week. It's the last of my three weeks off with them. THE big thing is Great America. The other six days will be swimming, or kicking the soccer ball around, or a movie if it rains, or picking up their friends for a sleepover.
