How do you spice up the summer when you are a stay at home mom?
I am a stay-at-home mom and I LOVE every minute of it. I consider myself blessed to spend my days building up and caring for my son. But like many other Stay-at-Home moms, I feel like I've fallen into a rut. Knowing that I have all the time in the world to get things done, I find myself putting things off and feeling like I've accomplished nothing for days in a row. My once perfectly scheduled days (devotional, breakfast, music time, vocab building time, math time, physical development time, etc...) have become a blur of activities. My planned out calendar with trips to the library, the park, the playground, play dates, etc... is non-existent.
Now that summer is here, I am being tormented with guilt. I feel like my slacking is affecting my son. I am ready to turn things around, though. I need your help in coming up with ideas of outings with my son (where we won't pass out from heat exhaustion here in FL). I also would like some insight as to how I can stay on top of my game and not go back to that rut.
Thank for your input. I value all your comments. This forum is such a blessing to new moms like me. :-)
Debra
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That's the thing with us stay-at-home moms, we have so much time we don't know what to do with it! Of course I have more than one kid but I generally handle summer in a flexible way. Since I also home school summer is the only time that isn't rigorously planned! Here in southern CA it is usually too hot to enjoy the park or hikes like we do in Spring and Fall but the beach is a pleasant option.
Because it is such a task to do the beach we generally only make it once a month. My kids will haggle me to take them someplace and my 16 yr old will rant forever about how bored she is from the moment she walks in the door! For us we are a big family and any outing costs a couple hundred dollars, and we just can spend that too often so what we do is plan several fun trips throughout summer, the beach, Lake Gregory, of course church camp and the rest of the time we just hang out and the kids play in the back yard.
Again this is simple for me because the rest of our year is so planned I thoroughly enjoy my "vacation" from scheduling. I can tell you that it hasn't seemed to have any negative impact on my kids (the lack of scheduled planning) and honestly they seem to like it better when mom's planning has flown out the window because it is less on them.
Unless of course your lack of scheduling means you are running here and there, to and fro on a constant basis, then that could have an impact on Joa for sure. but if you've just simply started loafing about the house look at it as a nice vacation in preparation for your new baby and I'm sure Joa hasn't even noticed!