summer wishlist

• learn to make madelaines
  

• have a weekly nice-mommies-with-cameras beach playdate that starts before the marine layer burns off and lasts till the sun is hazy and the kids are ready for bed

• sail on a very calm lake

• go to magic mountain

• learn to make great bubble mixture

• eat funnel cake
  

• buy red, white and blue adirondack chairs for the lawn and sit in them often watching the kids play
  

• escape to an oceanfront house set amongst sand dunes and read celebrity gossip magazines on the deck
  

• watch Donnie Darko from start to finish
  

• see a concert at the Hollywood Bowl (and take a picnic)
  

• go to Vegas kid-free
  

• go to Vegas with kids and get suntanned (but not sunburnt and headache-ish) at the pool. then have a fancy dinner and feel the spray of the Bellagio fountains
  

• sleep in a tent in the backyard (with the door to the bathroom and emergency king size bed left unlocked :)