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    Summer Bucket List: Swimming

    Another item we happily checked off Mikey’s summer bucket list – swimming at the pool. Whenever we go, the kids invariably ask if we’re going “for fun” or “for lessons” which I’m assuming are not one and the same in their minds. For how much we’re paying for those swimming lessons though, I think I’d prefer them to find them just as much, if not more, fun. Ah, but such is life. So this summer, we were able to combine many of their swim lesson days with staying longer to swim “for fun” in the family pool, shower everyone there, then grab a late dinner before heading home. Ah, the…

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    Summer Bucket List: Bike Riding

    One of the items on Mikey’s summer bucket list was to go bike riding. Which coincidentally worked well with an item on my unofficial summer bucket list that existed only in my head- to finally get around to teaching Allie to ride her bike without training wheels. The girl was long overdue to learn how. And happily enough, both items got checked off on Father’s Day.                                                                                        …