SUMMER 2013

Hello there! i am so excited for this post! this is our fist summer in our own house and i real want it to be special! so along with the kids, we made a list of summer activities that we can do all throughout the summer.. we decided on a stay-cation kinda summer because along with a new house, we are also trying to straighten out our budget and finance side as we now have to consider mortgage payments and  all other good stuff that come with owning a home.. the list is sort of a guide for us to know what will be in store for the day.. some of these things we already do, and some are pulled straight frooommm..... well, pinterest! of course!:)

the activities that made on our list are almost free or economical, or using recycled things that we would have otherwise thrown out.. so that's a plus! i also want to teach my kids how to be resourceful and innovative and especially have fun in the process.. and most are to be enjoyed by both my girls and my boy.. and also, things that all three of them can enjoy taking into consideration the differences on their ages..  and also these things are to be mostly executed by them, starting from planning it, to execution, and of course, to enjoying what they have worked for.. when i had three kids, i stayed away from thinking "how am i going to entertain my kids today".. my kids usually find things to do in the house and would ask me for things if they need any assistance. but i bring them to libraries and stock up on a lot of books at a time, and i love how that gives them endless hours to kill with minimal supervision on my part, and that's good!  the plan is to pick 3-5 activities everyday and start planning on sundays to get the supplies ready.. in the past, we have some ideas not seen in fruition simply because we didn't have the supplies ready and i was too lazy to go to the store with 3 kids in tow.. 
i'm sure there are lots of tutorials on some on the list here or here..:)

so here goes: 

1.  eat ice cream
2. make summer journal
3. Plant in the backyard
4. play outside
5. go to the beach
6. go to the zoo
7. go to the aquarium
8. eat ice pop
9. read a book under the tree
10. learn how to draw
11. Paint
12. play with chalk
13. learn new words each day
14. arts and crafts
15. learn a new song
16. clean the playroom
17. help mama clear the dishwasher
18. bake
19. watch tv for an hour
20. play teacher with jaeda
21. go to the library
22. play in the backyard
23. grocery with mama
24. clean the backyard
25. play with water sprinklers
26. make water balloons
27. learn how to ride a bike without training wheels
28. scooter
29. learn to spell a word each day
30. learn how to tell time
31. learn about money (coins and paper)
32. learn about countries/capital
33. learn and make different flags of countries
34. learn about 50 states/capital
35. take a nap
36. clean/organize clothes/shoes closet 
37. study addition and subtraction
38. make and drink a smoothie/shake
39. BBQ dinner
40. plan the girls' bday parties
41. learn new crafts
42. make birdfeeders
43. learn about bugs/insectropolis
44. collect rocks
45. plaint stones
46. go fishing
47. crabbing
48. ride a boat
49. go to friendly's
50. go to Rita's
51. make a toy
52. play with Jaeda
53. water the plants
54. help mama vacuum
55. climb a tree
56. visit  a pet adoption center
57. learn about proper caring of teeth
58. learn a prayer
59. clean room
60. "cook" with Jaeda using play dough
61. make lemonade
62. make ice candy
63. Play Wii for 2 hours
64. play with remote control cars outside
65. Pool
66. bake cakes
67. quiet time
68. exercise
69. wake up early and watch sunrise
70. watch sunset at Island Heights
71. visit Jersey beaches
72. visit the lighthouses
73. carwash day
74. help daddy with his car
75. help mama fold/put away laundry
76. visit Ocean County libraries
77. go on a treasure hunt
78. swim in YMCA
79. Play BINGO
80. Hopscotch
81. Camping
82. finger painting
83. blow bubbles
84. write your own story
85. I SPY game
86. make pancakes for dinner
87. walk around the neighborhood
88. do your chores
89. learn a new sport
90. lawn bowling using old bottles 
91. water Pinatas
92. ring toss with glow sticks at night
93. decorate your flipflops with foam stickers
94. cardboard slide and stairs
95. make a fort
96. sidewalk painting(1c cornstarch, 1cwater, food coloring)
97. doll boat in the bathtub (using plastic bottles and duct tape)
98. alphabet treasure hunt
99. cardboard, papertowel tubes, and make a racetrack
100. river using foil, and bottle caps for boats
101. trace yourselves with chalk
102. hide and seek
103. water guns
104. build an outside fort
105. walk with a mission (list i.e. # of cars, sort colors of houses or flowers)
106. make paper airplanes
107. slip and slide
108. make your own movie
109. science experiments
110. race hot wheels
111. picnic
112. marshmallow building (mallows and toothpicks)
113. make your own pizza
114. lunch with dad at work
115. fondue night
116. catch fireflies
117. family bike rides
118. watch a movie
119. make a time capsule
120. play catch
121. see fireworks
122. mail letters
123. fly a kite
124. go to the playground
125. do a puzzle
126. play frisbee
127. make recycled crayons
128. PVC "car wash"
129. visit museums
130. make your own book marks
131. noodle marble runs
132. collect seashells and make a wind chime
133. make a cardboard house
134. make play dough (1c white four, 1cwarm water, 2T salt, 2T cream of tartar, 2 Tcooking oil, jello)
135. bean bag/ball toss
136. visit planetarium
137. make color walk (paint on feet and walk on paper)
138. make ice eggs using water balloons
139. make human bubble wrap (5gal hot-ish water, i container corn syrup, mix, i container Dawn dish
140. learn tagalog
141. shaving cream foam
142. circle painting
143. play musical instrument
144. make your own bath paint
145. make a car mobile

and it begins..

this is the day!

finally bit the bullet and started it! this idea has been gnawing inside my brain for weeks now, itching to come out of conceptualization process alone and into fruition.. countless ideas and constant push and pull of my wits to whether do this or accept the fact that it could never be something i can do.  to execute or not was just beyond any brain noise i could possibly tolerate, while being surrounded with noisy and rambunctious kids at the same time. it's true that once you plant a seed of idea into your brain, it never shuts up, it starts to grow and outgrow what you can handle during your waking hours and, well, you could envision something like leaves and branches growing out of your ears and scalp. it basically consumes your every second and i guess there's nothing else left to do but to ACT ON THE IDEA, right? so here I am......(one small step, but one GIANT leap for me) sorry just had to! :D

i am beyond excited, and thanks to my hubster for fixing the computer and making it super faaaast, that i finally am getting to this! this is as raw as blogging can get and while blogging now has been so majorly hyped-up, i know and i am clear in my head that i am blogging for my own personal use and if it gets noticed, then, hey, that would be super duper great!

this blog, by the way, is about everything pinterest, and my adventures of trying to recreate all sorts of these perfect ideas that would surely improve our lives in general. i am so addicted with pinterest and now, i am beginning to get proactive, to stop pinning, and to start trying! although i have saved thousands of these great recipes, DIYs, sewing projects and etc., i haven't done any of these projects. what this means is that, although the instructions are all clearly explained and presented, i don't trust myself at all to find the motivation to even try because of the big probability of failure that i am facing. and i was thinking, maybe creating a blog about my would-be pinterest adventures stirs up a motivation in me to even just try. and so here goes! hmmm.. i wonder what would be my first pinteresting project!