{"id":4192,"date":"2018-06-14T20:55:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T00:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2019-02-14T00:59:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T05:59:10","slug":"summer-list-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=4192","title":{"rendered":"The Summer List for 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Summer appears to be upon us, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for the eighth annual summer list of things to make the most of the season. This year, Baby-Girl and I each came up with three things to add to our growing list.<\/p>\n

Baby-Girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Suggestions:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Make a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough without the eggs (or use pasteurized ones) so your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153so strict!!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mother will let you eat it without baking it to avoid salmonella poisoning. Note: You may still hurl, however, if you eat the whole batch, which is Baby-Girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plan (the eating, not the hurling), but you can rest in the knowledge that you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t consume raw eggs. Just saying.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Designate a rainy day as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Board Game Day.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Everyone involved picks a game (or several) and hunkers down in the family room with their games and a boatload of snacks. To take it to the next level, keeping track of the winner for each game and declare a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Game Day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d winner at the end of the day. The day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s winner earns a coveted prize (i.e., eggless cookie dough).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Declare it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Goofy Dress Day.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Give people thirty minutes to put together the weirdest outfits they can find with what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the house. No borrowing from neighbors or buying anything allowed. The person with weirdest outfit wins by collective vote. Then, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re that kind of family or group<\/em>, go for a walk. (This part may have been added by her mother.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

         <\/p>\n

        My Suggestions:<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. Read a book you never thought you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d read. Now don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dig up dark memories of English class; bear with me. Some of you have books you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spent your whole life avoiding, cringing at even passing references. Mine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Moby Dick<\/em>. I know, I know, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shocking coming from a former English teacher. But The Old Man and the Sea <\/em>was the first book I ever read (for eighth grade English) that I actually hated with a perfect hatred. So I decided maybe books about men, boats, and fish were not my thing. Then, I tried to read A Farewell to Arms<\/em> as a freshman in college and disliked it, so I thought maybe it was Hemingway. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. I had to read A Farewell<\/em> to Arms<\/em> for an American lit class exactly one year later, and I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t put the book down. Turns out I love Hemingway. I like to think I can occasionally learn from my mistakes, and recently, Moby Dick <\/em>has come up several times in intriguing conversations, even in conversations with people who seem like they haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t practiced literacy since college. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being put in front of my face, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. <\/em>So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve put it on my summer list to read so I can pass judgment knowledgably. Your selection doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to be a classic. It might be Toilet Installation for Those Who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d Rather Not,<\/em> a masterfully written and illustrated how-to you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve avoided for years because then you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll no longer have an excuse not to install the toilet you bought back in aught five for your powder room. Just doing more saying.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

            \n
          1. Read the paper on the beach. I saw a guy doing this and it stopped me cold. People read books and magazines on the beach, but no one reads newspapers, I thought. And then I thought, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why not? What better way to read up on what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening in the world than when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sitting on seeming edge of it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

             <\/p>\n

              \n
            1. Years ago, I wrote about scaring the wits out of my kids with a campfire story that got a little out of hand<\/a>. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do this. Instead, I thought of a way everyone can have a part in how scary\/exciting\/funny\/etc. the campfire story gets, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy to do. One person starts the story with a sentence, and you move around the circle and let each person add another sentence to the previous one. This gives everyone some control over the mood, plot, characters, and so forth. You can either designate a story-ender, or that can be an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153as the spirit moves\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sort of thing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

               <\/p>\n

              Check out the other seven lists for more thrilling activities like dipping your hair in buckets of cool water, walking through your yard with a lantern at night, and my favorite, a Mom camp.<\/p>\n

              Summer List 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

              Summer List 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

              Summer List 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

              Summer List 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

              Summer List 2015<\/a><\/p>\n

              Summer List 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

              Summer List 2017<\/a><\/p>\n

               <\/p>\n

              Happy Summer All Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Summer appears to be upon us, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for the eighth annual summer list of things to make the most of the season. This year, Baby-Girl and I each came up with three things to add to our growing list. Baby-Girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Suggestions: Make a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough without the eggs (or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2291,1747,319,2290],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-island-summers","tag-making-the-most-of-summer","tag-summer-fun","tag-summer-on-and-off-the-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}