Boredom Buster Summer Ideas for Kids

Welcome to the Summer '08 Boredom Buster Series!
Please enjoy and then take a peak at this year's Series!

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This summer my girls have made a list.

A very long list. Complete with categories. Complete with 8 different 30 minute activities per day. That's a total of 4 hours of don't ask mom, "What can I do?"
Because Mom will reply, "have you checked the LIST?".

First item on the list:

COOKING

They spent most of an HOUR (think about that...a whole hour entertaining themselves) reading through a couple kid cookbooks and all my back issues of Everyday Food.

And...

They came up with lots of things they can make.

And...

They made a list of ingredients we didn't have on hand.

And after Dad (with mom riding the Jazzy rider thing in the grocery store...you know the one...Hey. It was my first outing after the foot surgery) bought those necessary ingredients...

They made Strawberry Bread. Yup. After pouring over cookbooks. They weren't going to start out small. No. Sir. Ree.

See the little loaf pans, ready to enter the oven? Yeah, they can't see 'em either.

Because what's the point of cooking anything until you've licked the beaters, eh?

Suggested Serving? WITH cream cheese. And they put it on the list and we bought it. You bet your beautiful patooti they were eating it WITH cream cheese.
And it WAS good with cream cheese. (But it smelled better.)

Would you like to know what else is on their Summertime Doldrums List?
Good.
Cuz, I'll be posting it next week.

(see Part II, and part III.)