Comments on: The 2022 Spring Fun List https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/the-2022-spring-fun-list/ Writer, Author, Speaker Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: The Life-Changing Magic of Planning Your Week – Tidy Upgrade, LLC https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/the-2022-spring-fun-list/#comment-499993 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:22:38 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18478#comment-499993 […] (about a hour) each week (ask your friends for ideas or look at some of Laura’s has many seasonal fun lists). For example, this week I took my kids ice skating (big adventure) and to play at the […]

]]> By: clare kenned https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/the-2022-spring-fun-list/#comment-329615 Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:22:25 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18478#comment-329615 Hello! This is my affiliate link to beautiful kid’s books on Bookshop. They are indie booksellers. I think your kids are young enough to enjoy:
The Earth Book by Todd Parr (in honor or Earth Day)
Maple (About a little girl becoming a big sister in spring)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (The stories and poems of Mr. Rogers)
All The World (A lovely book about community and neighborly love).
Happy Spring!!
https://bookshop.org/lists/children-s-books-kindness-to-the-kids-in-your-life
Smiles,
Clare

]]> By: Pauline https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/the-2022-spring-fun-list/#comment-328763 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 16:12:45 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18478#comment-328763 My plan for spring is to try geocaching with the kids and some new recipes with vegetables

]]> By: Saturday Seven 225: Lifestyle & Inspiration for Quilters - A Quilting Life https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/the-2022-spring-fun-list/#comment-324512 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 10:00:30 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18478#comment-324512 […] love Laura’s idea for creating seasonal fun lists. Her 2022 Spring Fun List has some good ideas. This recent post on letting go of overthinking is so good–and so timely. I also loved […]

]]> By: Jen https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/the-2022-spring-fun-list/#comment-324417 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 03:30:08 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18478#comment-324417 I’ve got a spring book that I read every spring! The Secret Garden. I read it right when COVID hit and I was inspired by the book. I was big on sending my kids and myself to the backyard to play, pull weeds, and garden. It was so good for us during a stressful time.

]]> By: Lisa of Lisa's Yarns https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/the-2022-spring-fun-list/#comment-324245 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:21:00 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18478#comment-324245 I only have one thing on my spring list – take my oldest to the zoo. I got a membership to our zoo for my birthday after asking the grandparents for a membership for the boys for Christmas or their birthdays. Our 4yo is at the perfect age for the zoo. We went to a small one in Tucson when we were visiting my sister and he LOVED it so I’m excited to take him to the zoo in the Twin Cities because it is really big and I haven’t been for over 20 years so am excited to see it myself. I set a low bar for spring because it can be pretty awful here weather-wise! But mostly I’m excited to do little things like scooter rides on our block (did that for the first time this week), bike rides on the 4yo’s new bike that we will assemble this weekend, and family walks to the park.

]]> By: Diane https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/the-2022-spring-fun-list/#comment-323613 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:23:03 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18478#comment-323613 What about The Enchanted April for a Spring book? I’ve never read it myself, but the movie was lovely.

]]> By: Amy Laski https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/the-2022-spring-fun-list/#comment-323474 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:43:29 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18478#comment-323474 I keep a running list in my phone’s Notes app of “fun things to do and see” in my area. I find the issue isn’t so much finding fun things to do, it’s recalling them! This way they are always at my fingertips when we’re looking for something fun to anchor our weekend or a school holiday. Latest addition to the list is a place with nothing but rows and rows of various claw machines (the ones at an arcade where you have to control the robotic arm with a joystick and successfully pick up a prize). Sounds neat…we’ll see if it delivers!

]]> By: BethC. https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/the-2022-spring-fun-list/#comment-323226 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 03:12:01 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18478#comment-323226 My list:
1. Road trip: 6 states, 6 weeks, 6 baseball stadiums with my husband. Kids are grown and I just retired, and after 2 years of pandemic house-bound-ness, I am ready to carpe diem!
2. Go to New York to see a play-booked with my sister, daughter and niece.
3. Continue hiking. I was in a Wednesday afternoon hiking group that switched to evenings after the time change. I don’t want to do evenings, so I did some research and found a Tuesday afternoon hiking group. Invited 2 new friends from my Wednesday hiking group, and they are going, too.
4. Do some sort of outdoor evening activity. I found one for this Friday night-our local nature center is having campfires, astronomy and nature talks under the stars. Going with friends-a bonus.
5. Would love to check out Holland Ridge Farms, which is a half-hour away from me, but the website says that you can’t get tickets yet.
6. Meet a friend in Philadelphia for lunch-happening next week.
7. Meet up with a college friend for lunch whom I have not seen in about 5 years-we had spoken about making plans a month ago, but when I texted him to firm up said plans, he had just landed in Cartegena, Columbia for a last minute vacation. Never fear, parents of littles-you will someday get to do this kind of spontaneous travel stuff.
8. Go to the movies. In a movie theatre!
9 .Plant veggies.
10. Finish reading Joyce Maynard’s latest book. I have been reading her work since I was in college eons ago. Last summer, we were at the beach at the Jersey Shore for the day and I randomly discovered that she was doing a reading from her new book that evening at a library a mere two towns away. On a Sunday night! We went, of course, and I got to meet her.

]]> By: Elisabeth https://lauravanderkam.com/2022/03/the-2022-spring-fun-list/#comment-323044 Wed, 16 Mar 2022 19:49:38 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=18478#comment-323044 I always love how much joy you get out of fresh flowers/foliage. I appreciate the beauty of such things, but it’s not an aspect of nature I tend to seek out! But these posts always remind me I would actually LIKE to spend more time focussing on the natural beauty around me (I’m great about this in terms of rock formations, towering trees, a fresh layer of snow but flowers in bloom just never seem to catch my eye!).

“Since none of my children sleep anyway, we may as well go ride bikes and pogo sticks and dig in the dirt.” And then statements like this just make me laugh. Your personality is so refreshing. You seem to be very much tell-it-like-it-is and then move on and make the best with what you’ve got. My kids are still waking up early and I know someday I’m going to be complaining about how hard it is to drag them out of bed for school – but recently I stopped complaining one weekend morning and recognized how much I had done in terms of errands and house chores by 9 am. It was a lot! And then we had the rest of the day left to do fun things; so there are some perks (sometimes) to having children that don’t sleep a lot 🙂

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