No judging

So I'm about to admit a bunch of confessions here.  To my fellow Alaskans, it's going to seem completely normal and innocent.  If I were reading the things I would be doing this summer a year ago, I would have thought I was becoming a very bad parent.  Thus another lesson in not judging.  Ever.  :)

Here goes:

*  My kids sleep in until 10am every single day.  And some days, so do I. 
*  My kids stay up until 11pm every single day.  Sometimes later.  Rarely earlier.  Thus you can see why we sleep in.
* Some days I'm not sure what they have eaten.  We eat breakfast around 10:30ish, dinner at 7 or 8 (maybe) and lunch sometime in between there.  And I have a sneaking suspicion that sometimes I forget lunch.  Or else they have to fend for themselves.  
*  Snow cones and otter pops are part of our daily food intake.
*  Some days I have absolutely NOTHING on our agenda.  Nada.  Zilch.  If you know me, you know this is completely out of character!  I am a PLANNER.  I love to seize the day - starting with the morning!  Yet we've slipped into this comfortably yummy lazy summer schedule.  Don't get me wrong - we're still bike riding, hiking, and swimming.  We have play dates and sleep-overs like they're going out of style.  Our trampoline is getting daily use.  But not until after 11am.  And only if we want to.

I guess when you live where the sun never sets, there's no rush to absorb the daylight.  We've got more than enough.  And I'm loving it.