Out with the Old List, In With the New!

It seems like every mom I talked to in May had a "Summer Bucket List." A list of exciting things they were going to do with their kids: 1. Go to the Zoo, 2. Visit a water park, 3. Adopt a pet.  You get the idea.

As a recovering people pleaser AND one to always feel like I should be doing what everyone else is doing, I had my list ready to go by June 1.  (Last summer I was apparently more on my A-game and had the list ready by Memorial Day).  For the past 20 days I have been busting my ass bottom to either do or schedule our list, shown below.

1. Blueberry Patch
2. Science City
3. Lego Land
4. Have a garage sale
5. Find muffin, cookie, and popscicle recipes we all like and are good for us. Cook them together.
6. Do art projects once a week
7. Zoo
8. Chuck-E-Cheese
9. Have all the boys from Tommy's Pre-K class over for play time
10. Have a picnic in Loose Park

Seems like it would be pretty easy to do those 10 things, right?  So far we have done or at least made an attempt to do half of the list. I'll go for one more and then stop.  I'm tired.  The problem is that the list doesn't include stuff like go to the library, read books, lay around in our underwear, play with the sprinkler in the backyard, go to the pool 5 days in a row, go to Colorado twice, sleep in, etc.  All the normal stuff we are going to do anyway.

SO.  I'm making a new list.  To-do lists make me feel like crap about myself.  I never get everything done on them and feel like a failure at the end of the day.  I'm a pretty productive person, and I usually accomplish many things in my waking hours.  They just may not be what I wrote down or what I thought needed doing.  With my kids and my business for the rest of the summer I am going to write down what I did AFTER the fact.  I'm encouraging my clients to do the same.  Here's this week's list so far:

1. Tried Lego Land but decided it was too expensive and I didn't want to wait in line for an hour.  Went in the free gift shop and bought each of my kids a $3 lego man.  Told them it was so awesome to see all those legos and went and played in the Crown Center fountains and free dino exhibit for the rest of the day.
2. Slept in 2x
3. Had a friend on our street over to play
4. Played hide-and-seek
5. Went to the pool and got my hair wet so Hank could jump to me
6. Boys played in the backyard sprinkler in their underwear
7. Got some new books and movies from the library.  Read some
8. Snuck some flax seed oil and protein powder in a no-bake cookie
9. Took business gift cards and brochures to 3 churches, made a bunch of calls to churches
10. Went to yoga twice

I feel so much better!