So, Megan tells me that she wants a FUN SUMMER! I agree...why yes, Megan. We WILL have a fun summer. Fun summers when I was growing up included stoop sitting till all hours of the night, running bases, neighborhood games of hide and seek and an open fire hydrant. Once in a while we would take a day trip to Rockaway Beach to get our feet wet in the ocean, stop at Nathan's on the way home and that was our "day out." I remember my Mom creating "NYC days" which consisted of going to Central Park, walking around the entire city and stopping for ONE ride on the carousel in Herald Square, one pretzel for each of us and back on the train into Queens we went.
Well let me tell you, that is not what summers for these children consist of. And I have to admit, it's a different world. We could sit outside on our stairs until the cows came home, it wouldn't create neighborhood children to run with, play with, just be with. Now we have to set up "play dates." I LOVED George Carlin's piece on playdates and kids nowadays..he was so right. And it's sad because there's nothing we can do about it. It is what it is. While I try to teach Megan games from my childhood, get her out on her bike and skates, let he swim and go crazy in a 2 by 4 pool, small enough to fit in my Queens concrete backyard, it's not the same. So of course, Megan asks to go places the represent a child of 2012. And while these places are FUN and I would like her to experience them all in her lifetime, ALL IN ONE SUMMER is a lot on the pocketbook. Of course she doesn't understand this and of course I want to do at least a few of the things she has mentioned but ALL?
I can't believe I am old enough to say "Remember when," but it happens fast. It happens even faster when you have your own child and you realize different things. So here I sit, "remembering when" summers were filled with waking up at 11 in the morning, going to bed at 1 am, running up and down the streets, mothers calling us in for dinner and us kids begging to go back out again...as my child would like to go to the Jersey Shore at 5 years of age..I wonder what her children will be asking for...
Hoping everyone is enjoying their summer of 2012..and I hope it's not as expensive as mine is going to seem to get... :)
Things that Megan wants to do that are SO expensive! on PhotoPeach
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