Many of my summer bucket items involve food--s'mores, creamees, ice cream sundaes for Sunday dinner, gazpacho, BLTs, berry pie. I want to learn how to make kickass lemonade and limeade this year.

I also want to revive my bike-riding skills, since we'll be spending three weeks in a great biking country. And I want to do a long day hike to the top of a mountain, as well as explore a new-to-me walking tour.

There are also a couple of local-ish tourist places we haven't seen yet that I'd like to see. I want to take my kids to the drive-in movies too. Most of them have never been, and the one who has was too little to remember it.

There are other things that are annual traditions, but I write them down to make sure they happen.

I really only have two months, because summer doesn't start until June here (chance of snow next week), and we'll be gone almost all of July.

Good luck with your meeting with H. I hope he agrees to your counter proposal on meeting place.


Me: 44
H: 44
Kids: 20, 16, 16, and 10
Together/Married: 22 years
H announced he was emotionally detached and considering D: 4/4/16
H announced he is going to try to stay and reconnect: 5/1/16