I want to write about yesterday because I just had so much fun spending the whole day with the family. Neither Mike nor I exercised all day (which rarely happens these days), and we had two of Hayden's friends here from a sleepover. We had a campout the night before and all the kids and daddy slept in the tent. Yesterday morning Mike got up and made pancakes for everyone, then we went and picked blueberries. This is one of my favorite days of the year, and this year was perfect. The weather was perfect, the kids loved it, and the blueberries were fantastic! (I was a little worried due to the very wet spring we had.) Serena had so much fun she picked until her little basket was full, and carried that bucket around snacking on them till we cut her off at dinnertime (which was probably a little too late based on the diapers!). When we felt like we had picked enough, we all went and got each of our buckets weighed. Mike and I had each filled 2 ice cream buckets full, plus each of the 5 kids had his or her own bucket. As the check-out lady started to add up the pounds, I started to sweat. We had picked 29 lbs.! And they wouldn't accept any donations to sell the berries themselves either. We normally like to have about 20 lbs. to get us through the year, so we'll be living off blueberries this year!
After that we drove to a nearby park to do a rubbing from the summer reading club. It reminded me of Rocky Ridge and was very pleasant to walk. After stopping at McD's for a lunch snack, we came home and Serena, Hayden and I ended up getting into a water fight. We had a lot of fun.
We then drove up to Dover library to pick up some books and collect some reading prizes, home to eat dinner outside, and top off the day with the movie Horton Hears a Who. It was a wonderful family fun day from start to finish. It wasn't all that special, just that we set aside common things that we normally do on a summer day like park program, exercise, house repairs, pool, and did other things together instead. That's a real summer vacation.
