We have had a nice gentle start to the school summer holidays.
We’ve been to the library and the children have signed up for the summer reading challenge again. I can’t remember if we actually went back at the end of last summer in time for them to properly complete it so I really want to make sure they do it this year.
Nerys picked out a big book of ‘things to do’ so that’ll be great for when we have days at home. It’s got things to cook, things to make and activities to try and looks like it should keep us busy for a while.
I braved taking the children with me to Aldi one morning and they actually loved it.
They each had a shopping list, one on my phone and one paper copy, and really seemed to enjoy finding all the things we needed and crossing them off the list. I have a feeling the novelty might have worn off by the end of the holidays though!
We’ve also done a trip to the park to try out some different sports with ParkLives, a nice amount of time just taking it easy at home and a trip to the beach.
The plan for this summer is to visit quite a few different beaches on Gower and this week we decided on Langland Bay.
It’s a really popular beach on Gower but we don’t tend to go down there all that often. So it was lovely to go somewhere different and the children loved exploring the rock pools and paddling in the sea.
We weren’t planning on being at the beach all that long so didn’t take swimming things for the children. I had a sneaky feeling they would still want to splash in the sea though, so I put a change of shorts in a bag for them.
Good thing I did really because it wasn’t long before Rhys was pretty soaked up to the waist and had to take his shorts off to try and dry them out a bit. Well, if you can’t jump around in the sea in your pants when you’re a kid though when can you?!
Lovely photos, I can’t wait to go to the beach now…just two weeks today. I wish we lived closer you are so lucky to have a choice of beaches to go to.
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Thank you! We really are so lucky to have so many gorgeous beaches nearby. I hope you have a great time when you go away! x
Sometimes just a little bit of the ordinary and a slower pace are all that the children need. It sounds like a great start to the holidays x
We had a slow start and then last week, was really busy! I wish we were closer to the beach x
It sounds like you’ve had a lovely relaxed start to the holidays. We’ve signed up for the reading challenge at our local library too but it seems quite complicated so I don’t know if we’ll actually do it all!