I had a sudden flash of (dare I call it) dread this week
when I realized we have less than two weeks left of school this year! I look
forward to summer with a strange mix of delight and abhorrence. I love having
my kids home, but sometimes they get in my hair.
I love having no place to be,
but sometimes really miss having a schedule. I love that we have nothing to do,
but I hate hearing… “MOM!, there is Nothing to do!”.
One thing that we did last summer that I am really looking
forward to doing again this summer is the summer school lunch program. This was
an absolute dream come true last year and if you are able to, I highly
recommend that you do it with your kids.
My kids eat both breakfast and lunch at school, the cost of
feeding them those meals at home can really add up, not to mention snacks and
just boredom munching. This summer
lunch program gets us out of the house, it helps the kids to keep in touch with
their school friends, I got to meet some amazing moms and we always stayed and
played on the playground for a bit after. We were eating healthy AND being
active.
I have done all the “hard work” for you. HERE
is a link to find where they are serving summer meals near you. This is
the website that has all the information for the state of Utah. And here
is the information nationally, but they will redirect you to your state
site.
This is an amazing program; it changed our summer for the
better immensely last year. It gave us enough of a schedule, the kids looked
forward to the meal and to the play, and it really helped out our family with
the grocery budget.
