The 100 Things of Summer!

May 17, 2012 · Filed under 2012, Frugal Living, Other, Parenting

I love lists more than any sane person probably should.  After reading a To-Do List For Summer 2012 at The Provision Room I was inspired to create my own list of 100 things to accomplish personally, around the house and with the family this summer.  I can’t wait to get started!

1.  Visit the Plumpton Park Zoo
2.  Visit the Philadelphia Zoo
3.  Visit Longwood Gardens
4.  Visit Hagley Museum
5.  Visit The Franklin Institute to see “The Dead Sea Scrolls”
6.  Go ice skating
7.  Sleep on the back porch
8.  Make strawberry lemonade from the garden
9.  Hiking at Lums Pond
10.  Hiking at Iron Hill Park
11.  Ghost Tour at Rockwood Mansion
12.  Delaware Shakespeare Festival
13.  Wilmington & Western Railroad
14.  Cecil County Fair
15.  Have a bonfire with roasted hotdogs and marshmallows
16.  Make the boy child a root beer float
17.  TCM Essentials, Jr. Family Movie Nights
18.  Go-Karting
19.  Batting cages
20.  Miniature Golf
21.  Walk 100 miles
22.  Get certified as a NWF Wildlife Habitat
23.  Make ice cream
24.  Go berry picking
25.  Watch a meteor shower (in July!)
26.  Do at least 5 of the 77 Super Fun Date Night Ideas from Stay At Home Susie
27.  Make Homemade Bodywash courtesy of Proverbs 2 Six
28.  Brew my own Kombucha thanks to Delicious Obsessions
29.  Make Homemade Natural Bug Repellant thanks to Frugally Sustainable
30.  Make Homemade Sunscreen courtesy of Sustainable Life
31.  Make an Important Documents Binder thanks to Your Own Home Store
32.  Summer Reading program
33.  Attend at least one extra activity at the pool this year (ie. Floating Movie Night, Wiggle Worm Night, Family Fun Night etc.)
34.  Build a Fairy & Gnome House at the park on Sat. July 7
35.  Pan for Gems at the park on Sat. July 23
36.  Visit 5 State Parks
37.  Have a sleepover for the boy child.
38.  Camp out
39.  Make sno-cones
40.  Visit someplace we’ve never been.
41.  Visit Booth’s Corner with DH
42.  Make Strawberry Freezer Jam
43.  Make a succulent terrarium
44.  Stay in bed one stormy rainy day with the boy child watching movies and reading books
45.  Picnic at the park
46.  $1 Regal Movies
47.  Watch fireworks
48.  Go to a baseball game (the males)
49.  Invent a new type of pizza
50.  Make breakfast pizzas
51.  Take flowers to mom’s, pop pop’s and Memi’s graves
52.  Hooked on Fishing – Fair Hill July 11
53.  Blackberry Festival – Milburn Orchard July 28
54.  Read aloud 2 books to the boy child (titles to be determined)
55.  Build a seed packet organizer
56.  Make flashlight puppets
57.  Stargazing and dessert at night
58.  Let the boy child make dinner by himself
59.  Take an exploratory drive to nowhere
60.  Build a Mazon Bee House
61.  Technology Free Day!
62.  Take a walk in the rain… barefoot
63.  Go bowling
64.  Play race cars with the boy child in the driveway
65.  Have a paper airplane race
66.  Listen to 10 audiobooks
67.  Swim… a lot
68.  Lazer tag
69.  Freezer cooking day at the beginning of summer
70.  Make something for someone
71.  Volunteer
72.  Take an archery lesson with the boy child
73.  Go to Washington DC
74.  Go to Hershey Park
75.  Start a gardening/herbal medicine binder
76.  Read the Bible through in 99 days
77.  Go out to breakfast
78.  Write to my Compassion child
79.  Spa day
80.  Declutter every room in the house
81.  Summer Home School
82.  Watch the Olympics
83.  Visit the museums in Old New Castle
84.  Celebrate Christmas in July
85.  Play balloon volleyball
86.  Make banana bread
87.  Set up Vermicomposting Bin
88.  Have a picnic breakfast
89.   Read 10 books from my shelves
90.  Install a third rain barrel
91.  Build and install rooftop garden boxes
92.  Paint the bistro set and trellis
93.  Install the bat box
94.  Remove Weeping Cherry Tree
95.  Plant Apple Tree
96.  Have a garage sale
97.  Finish the turtle pen
98.  Organize photo albums
99.  Whittle down the boy child’s clothes
100. Pare down bookshelves