A Challenge

Okay, so my husband wakes up every so often with these "ideas" that he HAS to tell me about immediately before they go the way of those dreams that you feel like you have to write down before they're gone.  We're visiting family in Oklahoma, and he tells me about one of these ideas that I have to try...around the lake in 30 days.  What if I started a blog where I wrote about all there is to do around the Conneaut Lake area?  I could do something fun each day with my kids and then write about it.  My first reaction was to ignore the suggestion.  Yep, it's a good idea, but he's a great writer.  If he thinks it's such a good idea, then why doesn't he do it?  Well, there are lots of answers to that question.  So, I started to give it some thought.  There really are several reasons why this idea makes sense.

1.  I have two kids, 10 and 6, and if I don't do fun things with them sometimes, they fight and get on my nerves.
2.  I'm cheap, sort of.  I like to do things that don't cost much money.  I don't work in the summer, and if I did everything I wanted to do that looked fun, I'd be poor.
3.  I like the challenge of finding something different to do every day.
4.  As much as I say I like to relax, truly I don't think I'm happy unless I've got some type of project going on.
5.  This really is a pretty cool place to live.

So there you have it.  I'm going to try to keep a record of the fun things my family does this summer.  Not that anyone will ever read this, but we'll see.  Oh, and I decided to call it Around the Lakes in 30 Days because I wanted to be able to include things we do that are within about an hour's drive of here, and that would include Conneaut Lake, Pymatuning Lake, and Lake Erie, at least.

Well, we are off to do our first fun thing - canoeing on the lake.  Which one?  I'm not sure yet.  I'll let you know when we get back!