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It’s Barely Summer and Nancy is Creating Her Best Summer Ever! Are You?  

As I read through your “How I spent my summer vacation” article, I was giving myself a pat on the back (that doesn’t happen very often!). Here’s why…

My son is almost 7-years-old. I picked him up after work yesterday and as we were driving home along Highway X in Lake Wissota.  I said, “Oh look! People are heading to the beach already!”  And then, “Oh wow! The root beer stand is open too!”

My son instantly responded, “Can we go?!?”  Oh, it sounded like a great idea, especially since we never even MADE it to the beach last summer, for whatever reason!

BUT, I had a whole list of things that I was planning to get done at home after work.  I started to list some things that I needed to get done, and then I paused for a moment and said, “Sure!  Let’s go!  Give me 10-15 minutes to get a few things done and let’s head to the beach!”

Well, the water was too cold to swim, but we sure had a good time!  Usually this beach is so packed in the summertime (which is one of my excuses as to why we didn’t make it there at all last summer!), but we had our own wide-open space, and all the rocks and twigs that a little boy could ask for were washed up again the shoreline, so we made the coolest sand/rock castle ever!”

As the sun was setting, I gave him the option of staying another 15 minutes and eating our PB&J sandwiches we brought along when we got home, or we could leave now and hit the Rootbeer stand!  Off we went!  So, not only did we hit the beach, we also had our traditional order of corndog, cheesecurds, and ice-cold mug of rootbeer and it’s only May 28th! Yummy!

I’m not sure which one of us had the most fun!