Our Family Summer Bucket List – 2019

Last year for the first time I wrote a Family Summer Bucket List, we wrote it out with little pictures to hang in the playroom and ticked off when we did the most exciting and the most ordinary of things and it was just lovely. This year I wasn’t planning on doing the same as we would have been away but as those plans have changed I feel like this is more important than ever!

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Last year for the first time I wrote a Family Summer Bucket List, we wrote it out with little pictures to hang in the playroom and ticked off when we did the most exciting and the most ordinary of things and it was just lovely. This year I wasn’t planning on doing the same as we would have been away but as those plans have changed I feel like this is more important than ever!

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A Change of Summer Plans

summer family photo

You know when you imagine certain things? Times in your life that you rehearse in your head whether that be the best or worse case scenario and you marvel at how the reality might look different but smile all the same? Or you just simply look forward to something that doesn’t come to fruition?

That was this summer.

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A Magical Harry Potter Party

Harry Potter Party

Harry Potter Party

When I threw the girls a sports day themed un-birthday party in the summer I thought I had hit the jackpot. It was fun, easy to organise, inexpensive, inclusive, and around about a time when nothing much is going on (other than normal busy family life that is!) It was basically just really enjoyable for me which, let’s be honest, is the premise of lots of party planning….second to the child’s enjoyments obviously.

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