Busy Bees on These Lazy Summer Days

Summer officially begins tomorrow and so many people (mommies, in particular) are looking forward to a summer without schedules, classes and plans. I apparently have not been doing my job throughout the year in ensuring that we had schedules and classes to attend. Honestly, outside of our once a week Kindermusik class, we didn't have any daily activities planned besides the always exciting laundry and cleaning.

So of course now that the warm weather is on it's way (hopefully) and everyone else is taking a break from day to day structure, that's exactly what I'm diving into. Our beloved Kindermusik class has ended until the Fall so we set up an email list with everyone from our class. We are making an effort to have semi-regular outings with the kids. We have also joined a toddler swim class and are going to a weekly story-time at the library in our neighborhood.

If that weren't enough, I am going to make an attempt to get myself in shape. Not exactly an easy task when you have a 20 month old attached to your leg. So in hopes that paying for it and having my cute little girl with me will serve as motivation, I have joined a Mommy Caravan class. It's basically a stroller jogging class for mommies and their little ones.

I'm looking forward to jogging with other out of shape moms and only hope that there are no serious athletes signed up...no one wants to look more pathetic than necessary while working out. In preparation of my new class, we purchased a jogging stroller over the weekend and of course tested it out at Alki. I came away from that experience with the knowledge that jogging strollers are great for jogging, but do nothing to increase my lung capacity...bummer. Ah well, at least Layla enjoys it :)

So here we are with our summer packed full of activities and a trip back to Chicago planned (see a future post, to learn of that inevitable disaster, haha) and I am more than happy to be very busy. Layla certainly seems to be enjoying the activities and kid interaction, or as she would call it "babies!"