Batten Down the Hatches- Summer is Here.

Love the Title, Love the Movie. A classic for any kid growing up in Newport Beach.

It’s official.

My kids are out of school.

So I’m slightly ready. I’ve got the “Bucket List” done. It just needs to be scheduled. I have our first big outing coming up (camping this weekend.) I have to still pull together in the next couple of days.

It’s just everything in between I worry about.

Summer with kids is like the double-black diamond of the entrepreneurial parent. You work long hours but you’re not successful enough to pull off the full-time nanny or camp that you desperately need.

So by day you’re a full-time camp counselor, cook and nanny– by night a co-founder of a start-up “Project X” and blogger.

If last night is any example, I’m in trouble.

Come 7:30pm, post last-day of school beach party and and impromptu dinner by friend’s pool, the kids were totally wiped out.

So was I.

I sat down and really never got back up. I had a husband to visit with, I also had a workout to do for Go Betsy Go! 90 Day challenge, though I think chasing my 3 y.o. around the beach and pool, saving him from certain self-inflicted doom does count. How much cardio does sprinting from a relaxed prone position a hundred times screaming  ”No you can’t go skim boarding/jump in pool from diving board/leap from 5 foot rocks” get you?

There has got to be a better way to pull this off.

I watch in awe as my friends do hard core job and kids routine.

What is their secret?

Any suggestions?