A Child’s View of Summer « Where the Butterflies Go

A Child’s View of Summer

(To our three-year old): What do you want to do this summer, sweetie?

Fly a kite!

Bounce at the beach! Jump in the sand!

Row a boat with Daddy. Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream!

Try to catch fireflies at night. They will come to my back yard and I will catch one.

But, it’s firey, so maybe I couldn’t catch it.

Pick strawberries, in Daddy’s garden, there! I’d like to pick strawberries with you.

Hmmm….Who said kids need expensive vacations?

June 24, 2008 - Posted by heather grace stewart | Children, Parenthood, Summertime, Toddlers | childhood, Children, summer, summer activities, vacations | 2 Comments

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I totally agree. Kids just want US.

Comment by Heather Cook | June 25, 2008 | Reply
I’ve tagged you on my blog! Just a fun thing you may want to do…

Miss ya! xox

Comment by Ann-Margret | August 1, 2008 | Reply

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Heather Grace Stewart’s poems have been published in Canadian newspapers and literary journals, online journals, international print anthologies, and in the British small presses. Her most recent collection of poems is Where the Butterflies Go (available here http://www.lulu.com/content/1506907 with half the proceeds going to Unicef’s Gift of Education project and other third-world school projects); she has also penned two non-fiction books for youth published by Jackfruit Press and writes regularly for the Queen’s Alumni Review, Canadian Wildlife magazine and Wild! magazine for children. Her photographs have appeared in Equinox and National Geographic Traveler magazines and on the cover of a dozen poetry books. Born in Ottawa, she lives with her family near Montreal. Visit her at her official website, hgrace.com

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