July 4th like a kid again!

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

My son is camping with his Aunt and cousins, my husband and I are off tomorrow, I have big plans!!

Declaring tomorrow "Live like a Kid again" day. So far on my list, I have
1. Eating Lucky Charms for breakfast
2. Having a water balloon fight with my husband
3. Eating popsicles till I burst
4. Having peanut butter sandwiches with no crust for lunch
5. Blowing bubbles outside
6. drinking kool aid instead of coffee
7. Watching cartoons when it's too hot outside (thank god for youtube)
8. Roasting marshmallows after supper


Any other ideas?

Comments

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I allowed this post to come through even though it's seriously OT for two reasons:

1) I want to see how this would be any different from any other day :P

2) I needed a good reminder that this community still exists! I keep getting wrapped-up in other on-line projects and forget that we started this up as a kind of closed-content community and I *need* to make time for helping make the next watch-along!

So thanks!

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

Oh I apologize....
I didn't think of it being OT as it related to cartoons, anyway. I WILL be watching some of the old '80s classics we watched last year, but we have a day off in the middle of the week, and NO responsibility so it would be a perfect day for us to just slack off and "be", rather than cleaning house, paying bills and running around like the weekends.

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

Also, you KNOW this community is very dear to me...I was simply trying to create a way to get dialogue going during the "Summer re-run" season, lol!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

No harm no foul - it's why we have it set up for moderated submissions :)

[mspette.livejournal.com]

Build little indoor huts with chairs and blankets and hide.

Play board games.

Listen to cheesy 80s music (not the cool 80s indie music).

Dress in funky colours.

Have a big (bad) hair day.

[mspette.livejournal.com]

Oh and:

Watch the news on TV, but mute it. Then turn on the radio and laugh when the sound and the lip movements match or don't match, depending on what pleases you more.

[aurora77]

Build a pillow/blanket fort.
Have a pillow fight.
Play a kids board game or card game.
Play a ball game and make up the rules as you go. A la Calvinball. See this reference and this example.)
Climb a tree and read a book in it.
Play tag and/or hide-and-go-seek.
Slide down hills on big pieces of cardboard.
Go to the park and play on on the swings and jungle gym.
Wear brightly-colored, fun clothes.

[aurora77]

Play Atari games.
Listen to cheezy 80s and 80s-style music. (Everybody Have Fun Tonight, 8-Bit Eighties (on ocremix.com), Mickey, etc.)
Watch "This is America, Charlie Brown"

[ogew.livejournal.com]

I was never much of a kool aid girl - always more of a Capri Sun drinker.
You can try Netflix streaming for old cartoons too - they have quite a few.

Other ideas:

Silly String
Tuna Casserole and cakes from an easy bake oven for dinner
A good sword fight with nerf swords
Video games

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

Wasn't much of a video game player but the silly string is an excellent idea! We had kool aid because it was cheap and Capri sun hadn't reached Ontario yet. ( Son, I am OOOOOLLLLDDDD)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

In all the excitement, I forgot to say how *I* will live like a child tomorrow!

Exactly as i did in my childhood, tomorrow I will spend the day and night at an elderly relative's house that smells like dogs, and I'll wish I could be where the COOL stuff is happening. Then I'll beg for some money so I can go buy fireworks, which will make all the older folks go on their rants about how much they hate fireworks and loud noises and fire. Then I'll sulk away, find a corner where I can put on my headphones and crank all the "Punk Rock" I can handle - Genesis, Huey Lewis, Crowded House... you know, PUNK ROCK :)

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

Living the dream, Captain Slinky! Don't forget sneaking chips when the grown ups aren't looking!

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

And wondering why they spent $800 on fancy beers and ice and yet *I* am stuck drinking warm Generic Diet Root-Beer and Diet Orange soda!

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha!!
Well, I prefer generic root beer!

[aurora77]

I'll get up and put on some cartoons and have some toast with apricot jam, just like gramma used to make.

Then I'll play some video games for a bit.

At some point, I'll build a fort with blankets, pillows, and chairs and read inside of it.

I also just might have to challenge somebody to a game of some sort and play while watching Goonies in the background.

Maybe I'll go run around in the field out back with my arms out and pretend I'm an airplane. Ooh, and maybe some somersaults and rolling down the hill. :D

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

Somersaults definitely in the plans.

[teddy0bear.livejournal.com]

Pretend to be She-Ra with a bunch of friends. The tree in the backyard being whispering woods, the house/tree house being the crystal castle, the deck being the fright zone, you're annoying little brother being Imp and that stick you found being your sword of protection. Your husband can be Hordak or, I suppose, He-Man. Sea Hawk?

I was more of a tmnt girl anyway but that usually didn't require as many fun props.

- Play grounders or freeze tag (or Red Rover, "What time is it Mr. Wolf", capture the flag...etc)
- Hopscotch
- Chalk drawings
- Battleship/Stratego
- Mac & Cheese
- Jump rope
- Ghost stories
- Where in the world is carmen sandiego, Number Munchers, super solvers!

Ontario you say?
- Watch some Today's Special, under the umbrella tree, fred penner's place, Friendly Giant, Mr. Dress Up (lol, I hated almost all these shows at one point or another but part of childhood)

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

We used to play "Star Wars" and "Battle of the Planets".
I used to end up being Artoo or Chiops.
And Friendly Giant?? FANTASTIC idea, thanks!!

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

How did this turn out? Sugar hangover?

[cooperwench.livejournal.com]

Yep but so worth it! I was off the next day so I could sleep in then too