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Sharing my August Bucket List...

Oh dear. Our summer is over already. Daniel starts school on Monday and Olivia moves to her apartment on Friday.

I already miss them, but at the same time, I'm looking forward to the quiet again!

Maybe I should make a list of all the celebratory things I'm going to do the following week, when they are both in school. LOL
 
My eldest son started full time work last week, I was looking forward to having the house to myself for a whole day for the first time since forever- until - youngest son got a mild concussion and spent a couple of days at home, eldest son's girlfriend cam home from visiting her parenst early, husband decided it was a good day to work from home and daughter didn't have an early university class and didn't leave until after lunch! :groan

Still looking forward to my quiet day/week - appreciate and have fun in your quiet time!
 
I definitely wish we could hold onto summer all year round. I'm forcing myself not to think about the Canadian winter. On the other hand it will mean I'm closer to having my first grandchild and and closer to winter vacation...
 
I love your list! We have one week to go and I fee like we haven't done very many of the things that we had planned to do at all :( Too many other things got in the way. But I told my 11 year old that we are proclaiming this week the "Week of Fun", so other than having to go to football practice every day we are going to do as many fun things as possible. I may even borrow from your list :)
 
Well being retired grandparents, we don't have any cut off dates for summer. However, I really dislike hot, humid weather so my list would only include some things that don't take me out of the a/c house! This coming week he is going fishing in Alaska, so one thing for me to cross off the bucket list is to clean out the freezer and pray he catches halibut and salmon!

Otherwise, my week long staycation will include a lot of nothing. Inside!
 
@ForeverJoy I love your Bucket list and I love what everyone has posted so far about their summer (or how their summer is already over). You've got some "easy to do" things on there, which I appreciate. :) It made me realize I should remember some of the simple joys of summer! One problem? Our fridge died today, which means we just spent a chunk of "fun money" on something boring like a new fridge. Oh well. We need a fridge, right???

While many of my bucket list items usually revolve around the kids, I do have one thing for just DH and myself: we already have a babysitter lined up for the last weekend in August and we're going on our once-a-season date. New fridge be darned--I'm NOT canceling! (We don't live near extended family, so we have to use a babysitter.) To me, money spent on a date is money invested in my emotional well-being. And isn't that what a Bucket List is all about? :innocent
 
Renee, that's just August? Holy cow! Our summer bucket list is basically surviving our annual camping trip. I want to go bowling in a Hawaiian shirt! It all looks so fun.
 
isn't summer supposed to last until September 21st?
I am loving the hot weather here and I'm wanting to stretch the days as much as I can....and on the other hand my hospital appointments which will help me feel better are in September so I want it to arrive soon...
School here doesn't start until September for kids, Sarita starts in October Uni... so that is something to look forward to...
 
@MrsPeel Yes, autumn starts and summer ends on September 21. Besides being the Autumn Solstice it was my father's birthday so I know for sure!

Growing up, way back when, we got off school around Memorial Day (last Monday in May) and started up right after Labor Day in September. A good three months. My dh says he thinks that vacations are shorter now because more/most children take the bus to school. When we all walked (yes a mile or more) it was up to parents to decide if you went to school or not. We never had snow days nor did the teachers' have so many training/service days. Those do add up and have to be made up depending on state/county law. But while summer may have been officially over by September 21, we often had real heat up to and including some of October. And no a/c... we did get droopy by afternoon.
 
Maureen... we had the same in Latin America.... different months of course, winter finishes on the 21st December...so at some point before that school year would finish...and we had half December, January, February and part of Match for summer holidays.....
Then we would go back in March, generally second week, and have a week or 10 days of holidays in July (winter hols) but we also had all the Christian Holidays off, different Saints, different celebrations that sometimes coordinate with the Independence of the country... what I mean is: we had LOTS of days of school apart from 3 months of summer holidays..... but we sure learned a lot more than kids do these days with less holidays around here.

My father says that the Argentina & Brazil educational systems went down around 2001...but had been a few years on that path... I'm not sure how schools perform these days there...but I know I schooled Sarita at home apart from primary school she attended, which was a Roman Catholic School, because I saw the lack of some subjects I thought were important enough for her, even in secondary school she didn't have some subjects I thought were important so I made sure she knew about.

As much as I love technology and sure cannot live without (we had no internet or TV this past weekend...it was torture!!! LOL) s0metimes I wonder about kids educational systems all over the world.... anyway, I need to enjoy the weather we are having right now here but haven't been very mobile... I went this morning to have some blood tests... when I came back I lay down in my car to enjoy the sun!!!!!!! (we have a solar roof) I need this weather to hold until first week of September!!!!!!
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Love your list. Especially the big canvas painting outside. :) You're going to be busy!!! :) Sounds like fun though.

Our summer has kind of been a bust since I've been having head trouble, and our only car died in July and we STILL haven't replaced it. Ugh. I'm going crazy without a car. Seriously. We had a lot of little local things we were going to do but haven't been able to.

We did do the Color Run (walk) on Sunday. That was something on our bucket list. Even though I wasn't at my best, it was still a nice family event because my sister and nephew joined us too. We also have a bowling afternoon I bought through Groupon so we need to get that done soon. My daughter has next week off, so we'll be doing something summery, I'm sure. :giggle
 
@MrsPeel My state does not have the same start and end date. Some of the kids went back last week, some this week, and my siblings go next week. My munchkin would have started today {Aug 17} but due to the impending move, I'm not sending him.
They all seem to end in the week of or after Memorial Day. In Utah, kids have to be in school mandatory 180 days. Also, 450 hours for Kindergarten, and 810 hours 1st grade, 990 for 2-12 grades. But the district sets the start and end date individually.
As a kid, I started the Tuesday after labor day, and went until sometime in June.
 
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