Ah summer! I love summer. I love sitting back and watching all the plans I had to scramble to put together all spring slowly unfold into a lovely, full summer of activity. I'm not one to sit around and relax, so there's a certain satisfaction to this process each year, and like anything, it seems like something you get better and better at as time goes on. It's no small feat to engineer an entire summer of child-care and activities -- camps, babysitter, swimming lessons -- and still find time not only to work part-time but also relax a little bit, let me tell you. In fact, this past spring was pretty stressful, I'm not going to lie. But that's a story for another time.

Here are some snapshots from our summer so far! It wouldn't be summer without a visit to the lake (Lake Michigan)...the splash park...running through the sprinkler...and camping!

We went camping last weekend and it was hands-down the MOST RAIN we have ever gotten while camping. It rained pretty much non-stop from the time we got to the campsite Friday evening until we left Sunday morning. Luckily there were a few breaks in the rain to swim in the lake!!

Hugo and I try to get to a park on my days off work (right now that's Tuesdays and Thursdays).

This weekend, Clementine turns NINE -- can you believe it?! seems like just yesterday I was posting her birth announcement -- and then we're dropping off the kiddos at Grandma's (Hugo) and sleepaway camp (Elliot and Clementine), so Mr Rae and I can go to Montreal for a few days just the two of us. I'm so excited!! I've never been to Montreal and I've heard it's absolutely lovely.

If you follow me on Instagram you might have noticed that I took a trip to Colorado for a knitting retreat a couple weeks ago -- that was really fun too. I'll try to post pics of that trip soon!I hope you're having a wonderful summer, too! What have you checked off your summer to-do list so far?

Summer snapshots

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