Hi everyone - when I started this blog I thought, “how hard can it be to post a photo each day?” Well, hard! Life gets busy and time gets ahead of you. So, I thought I would break the blog up into the same segments my week is broken up into - Monday is home day, Tuesday: Scrapbooking, Wednesday: Projects & Errands, Thursday: Meal Planning and Friday: Family Day. With that in mind I will have a focus for each day in terms of finding a photo and hopefully you will all enjoy the various themes for each day - so here goes…
It’s Friday and Family Day at the Williams house. You’ll find a video in CPOtv (CLICK HERE) to help you pull this project together but for now I thought I would share the basics and something we do each summer to make for a fun few months. Mid June we all sit down for a brainstorming session to come up with a list of things we would like to do over the summer. Our list is longer than the summer so we don’t do everything, but we come up with lots of ideas to choose from. Because I scrapbook, I pull out my scrapbook supplies and we end up with a sheet of ideas that can easily be moved from our idea sheet to our calendar. The kids love to see things move over, either before or after we have completed an activity.
To help us know what is doable we break the tasks into big - like a theme park (but not Disney!), day trips, and around the house/town. This makes it easy to pull an idea to fit the time we have available. I used different coloured paper this year but you could easily pick a different shape to help the kids identify what’s what.
We usually plan ahead and pull a few of the ideas off our sheet and stick them on the calendar but most are planned closer to when we do them as our summer tends to be a bit more relaxed and we do things as we have time and a desire to do them.
For today… Well, Emmy is off to work with her Daddy and Sam and I are home alone. Sam has been wanting to do the “fondue” we have on our list so I think we will surprise Emmy and Phil by getting it all setup before they come home. We do broth fondues and I cook the meat ahead of time because my kids are young and I don’t want them to handle raw meat. We usually have some veggies along with chicken and shrimp. We finish things off with a chocolate fondue! Yummy with fresh berries! CPO’s Tracy recently had a fondue on her patio - so I think I will plan to have ours outside tonight. We have never had it outside on our deck so it will be something different and fun.
For those of you new to fondue - watch for a special in CPO Canada Cooks in the fall. You’ll learn all about fondue and we will share some recipes too!
Plan something with your family today - it doesn’t have to be BIG - just fun!
Helen
