{"id":12820,"date":"2018-06-01T20:46:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T01:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=12820"},"modified":"2018-06-01T21:04:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T02:04:13","slug":"first-day-of-summer-vacation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=12820","title":{"rendered":"First day of summer vacation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we totally lived it up today on our first day of summer vacation.\u00a0 Wanna know what we did in way too many details?\u00a0 Why, then, my friend&#8230; read on!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Got up at normal time and made cinnamon rolls for the kids<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12830\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12830\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12830\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/coffee-R-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/coffee-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/coffee-R-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Let Chloe sleep in<\/li>\n<li>Loaded up the kids and went garage sale-ing!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12827\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12827\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/going-garage-sale-ing-R-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/going-garage-sale-ing-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/going-garage-sale-ing-R-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/going-garage-sale-ing-R-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Scored a few nice things: roller blades and pads for Chloe, kids show shovel, coloring book for and a ton of extra pencils, books for the big kids, awesome boots for Chloe and a few other random items.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12826\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12826\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12826\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chloe-rollerblades-R-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chloe-rollerblades-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chloe-rollerblades-R-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chloe learned how to roller blade while Josiah learned how to turn on his skateboard all while I weeded around the three trees in our boulevard.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12828\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12828\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/josiah-riding-skateboard-R-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/josiah-riding-skateboard-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/josiah-riding-skateboard-R-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Talked on the phone with Kylene!\u00a0 Our weekly phone call.<\/li>\n<li>Walked to the park with Chloe and the Littles so she could practice on her roller blades some more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12829\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12829\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/littles-on-the-slide-R-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/littles-on-the-slide-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/littles-on-the-slide-R-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/littles-on-the-slide-R-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tim and Josiah went to Valleyfair to meet a friend and spent the afternoon there.<\/li>\n<li>The rest of us played in the sprinklers and enjoyed lounging out back until nap time.<\/li>\n<li>After the Littles went down for naps Chloe and I sat out on the back patio enjoying ice cream cones and just talking.\u00a0 We ended up watching a little bird making a nest in the bird house for a long time.\u00a0 It was just the perfect weather to sit in the shade with the breeze keeping us cool.<\/li>\n<li>Introduced Chloe to using the home phone to talk to her friend.\u00a0 It was adorable.<\/li>\n<li>Potted our new tomato plant.\u00a0 Josiah is very excited about having tomatoes!<\/li>\n<li>Cut some rhubarb from our garden and made rhubarb crisp.\u00a0 Nommmmm&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Welcomed the boys home and heard all about how many rides Josiah went on without being scared!\u00a0 I was seriously impressed.<\/li>\n<li>Ran to Target with Levi after supper to get prepped for tomorrow&#8230;\u00a0 I am (drum roll)\u00a0 potty training Maddie.\u00a0 (Gulp).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I feel like today was abnormally long.\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 We seemed to really cram a lot into one day, and yet there was a lot of relaxing in there too.\u00a0 I suppose it&#8217;s the best kind of day then, right?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we totally lived it up today on our first day of summer vacation.\u00a0 Wanna know what we did in way too many details?\u00a0 Why, then, my friend&#8230; read on! Got up at normal time and made cinnamon rolls for the kids Let Chloe sleep in Loaded up the kids and went garage sale-ing! 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