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Three Ways to Simplify Your Summer with Kids – Podcast #4 Amazing Mess
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“We get 18 delicious summers with our children. This is one of your 18. If that’s not perspective, I don’t know what is.” Jessica Scott
Today, I’m back and talking about three things I’m doing to simplify our summer this year. It’s easy for the summer to slip by, so I wanted to be intentional about making the most of it. I only have a few summers left with my daughters, and while not every moment has to be meaningful, I do want to have a simple enough summer that we have time to enjoy the important things!
If you prefer to watch this as a video, you can check it out here—–> https://youtu.be/cOg2Wmib40M
SUBSCRIBE TO THE AMAZING MESS PODCAST!!
Show Notes:
A few things I talk about in podcast (some of these are affiliate links which means I make a *small* amount if you purchase through my link….thanks for your support!):
Kids Cook Real Food eCourse
Summer Bucket List Printable & Customizable Chore Chart (these are available FREE to email subscribers. Just sign up for my weekly email below this transcript or on the right-hand side of the blog, and you will receive access to them once you confirm your email)
Thanks for taking time to listen to my podcast. Please subscribe and leave a review if you find it helpful! 🙂
Amazing Mess Podcast #4 Transcript:
Simplify Your Summer with Kids
Hello, and welcome back to episode number four. Today I will be talking about three ways to simplify your summer. (I did want to let you know that I originally recorded this as a video in my car so the audio is not fabulous. I did try to make it a little bit better, but it is not as high of quality as I hoped, but I hope you are still able to get the main points.)
A couple of weeks ago on my Facebook page, I posted a quote that was from Jessica Scott, and it said something about how you only have 18 delicious summers with your children, and this is one of them. That should give you perspective is basically what it was saying. And that really went crazy {on my facebook page}. I think we all want to be intentional with our summer, but we don’t always know how, or if you’re like me, you’ve kind of let things go crazy in the summer…like one year I let my girls sign up for so many things. It was really out of control. This year I really wanted to simplify. What I really wanted this summer was to be intentional!
My word for the year that I chose back in January is simplify. I don’t know if you ever choose a word for a year, a year or not, but it’s a great practice. I’ve done it for maybe five or six years, maybe six years now. It really just helps me to focus in on this one word and helps me shape my goals for the year. I chose the word simplify, so I came up with three things that I think you can do to help simplify your summer with kids:
1) Choose a Word for the Summer
The very first one is to come up with your own word for the summer. So I have the word simplify for my whole year, but I was thinking, well what if I just have a word just for my summer? What do I want to accomplish this summer? What does that look like? And so I chose the word memories because I only have a few summers left with my oldest daughter, and I really want to make some memories. Using that word is helping me to shape my goals for the summer.
“We get 18 delicious summers with our children. This is one of your 18. If that’s not perspective, I don’t know what is.” Jessica Scott
Today, I’m back and talking about three things I’m doing to simplify our summer this year. It’s easy for the summer to slip by, so I wanted to be intentional about making the most of it. I only have a few summers left with my daughters, and while not every moment has to be meaningful, I do want to have a simple enough summer that we have time to enjoy the important things!
If you prefer to watch this as a video, you can check it out here—–> https://youtu.be/cOg2Wmib40M
SUBSCRIBE TO THE AMAZING MESS PODCAST!!
Show Notes:
A few things I talk about in podcast (some of these are affiliate links which means I make a *small* amount if you purchase through my link….thanks for your support!):
Kids Cook Real Food eCourse
Summer Bucket List Printable & Customizable Chore Chart (these are available FREE to email subscribers. Just sign up for my weekly email below this transcript or on the right-hand side of the blog, and you will receive access to them once you confirm your email)
Thanks for taking time to listen to my podcast. Please subscribe and leave a review if you find it helpful! 🙂
Amazing Mess Podcast #4 Transcript:
Simplify Your Summer with Kids
Hello, and welcome back to episode number four. Today I will be talking about three ways to simplify your summer. (I did want to let you know that I originally recorded this as a video in my car so the audio is not fabulous. I did try to make it a little bit better, but it is not as high of quality as I hoped, but I hope you are still able to get the main points.)
A couple of weeks ago on my Facebook page, I posted a quote that was from Jessica Scott, and it said something about how you only have 18 delicious summers with your children, and this is one of them. That should give you perspective is basically what it was saying. And that really went crazy {on my facebook page}. I think we all want to be intentional with our summer, but we don’t always know how, or if you’re like me, you’ve kind of let things go crazy in the summer…like one year I let my girls sign up for so many things. It was really out of control. This year I really wanted to simplify. What I really wanted this summer was to be intentional!
My word for the year that I chose back in January is simplify. I don’t know if you ever choose a word for a year, a year or not, but it’s a great practice. I’ve done it for maybe five or six years, maybe six years now. It really just helps me to focus in on this one word and helps me shape my goals for the year. I chose the word simplify, so I came up with three things that I think you can do to help simplify your summer with kids:
1) Choose a Word for the Summer
The very first one is to come up with your own word for the summer. So I have the word simplify for my whole year, but I was thinking, well what if I just have a word just for my summer? What do I want to accomplish this summer? What does that look like? And so I chose the word memories because I only have a few summers left with my oldest daughter, and I really want to make some memories. Using that word is helping me to shape my goals for the summer.
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