Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

So apparently I never posted our (now starting) Annual Summer Bucket List. Oops. My bad. I started this list on June 1, which for me marks the beginning of summer, and started knocking things off almost right away! It's a short list at 20 items, but will keep us plenty busy enough during the summer months. I'll post what items were on the list below and mark them if they've been done already. Neufeld's 2015 Summer Bucket List 1) Go to the Zoo 2) Go to the Splash Park - DONE multiple times. I swear some weeks we live at the Splash Park. And the city just opened a new one within a short walk from the house (10 minutes maybe), and it's open all day long, every single day. For Free! 3) Berry Picking - Did this twice with the girls in one week. Picked about 7 gallons of fresh strawberries for ourselves and my MIL. And the girls had a blast. 4) See a movie with the kids - Me and my sister Sam took Violet to go see Inside Out at the local theatre. Violet loved it. 4) Ha

Reading Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry. It’s a bit of an interesting read and is taking me a while to get through it, although I do get a fair number of interruptions while I’m reading during the day. Knitting a small multi-coloured blanket for Violet’s teddy bear. Apparently now that her and Dominique have their own knitted blankets, now her beloved Teddy Bear needs one as well. Watching quite a few documentaries on Netflix by BBC Earth. They also make good informational background noise while knitting. Cooking pizza for supper tonight. Homemade for the win! Scrapbooking Dominique’s 1st-year album. I’m almost done just have to order photos from her birthday and do the journaling that goes along with them. Going to work this weekend. Bleh. Loving that I took the girls strawberry picking twice this week and they loved it! Also, home grown strawberries win over store bough. Every. Single. Time. Re-Discovering my love for baby tomatoes. Especially if they’re grown in my little