More to Explore
We had a really great summer. I thought it was going to be tough trying to keep my older kids occupied while sticking to the little kids' schedule but what ended up happening is that the little kids did a great job keeping up and having fun with the big kids.
My friends roped me into this program the library was doing called More to Explore. We each got a passport and each page had information about a different park or area of interest in our county. The idea was to go visit the site and do a rubbing from the marker (after finding the marker which was not always easy). The passport was complete if you visited 10 or the 22 sites and you could get a compass from the library.
We easily got four parks that we visit on a regular basis, plus the library but that left at least five more places to visit. I started planning out adventures and how we could get the most rubbings in one outing. We went to a new park that my kids absolutely loved and I hadn't even known it was there. We went to two new beaches, one that we didn't like at all and one that the kids enjoyed so much they insisted on going back a few days later with their dad. We went to a lighthouse I'd never taken the time to go see before and found a cool spot to launch our kayak.
It was great to get to know our county better and its resources but even more fun was the time I spent with my kids doing something new. We made memories, had fun experiences, shared special time together learning and seeing things we'd never seen before. My kids loved our adventures and would ask me when and where our next one would be. It was a summer I'll always be grateful to have experienced.
My friends roped me into this program the library was doing called More to Explore. We each got a passport and each page had information about a different park or area of interest in our county. The idea was to go visit the site and do a rubbing from the marker (after finding the marker which was not always easy). The passport was complete if you visited 10 or the 22 sites and you could get a compass from the library.
We easily got four parks that we visit on a regular basis, plus the library but that left at least five more places to visit. I started planning out adventures and how we could get the most rubbings in one outing. We went to a new park that my kids absolutely loved and I hadn't even known it was there. We went to two new beaches, one that we didn't like at all and one that the kids enjoyed so much they insisted on going back a few days later with their dad. We went to a lighthouse I'd never taken the time to go see before and found a cool spot to launch our kayak.It was great to get to know our county better and its resources but even more fun was the time I spent with my kids doing something new. We made memories, had fun experiences, shared special time together learning and seeing things we'd never seen before. My kids loved our adventures and would ask me when and where our next one would be. It was a summer I'll always be grateful to have experienced.
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