The author and his daughter standing outside in front of an Amtrak train and smiling.
The author got to spend more quality time with his daughter this summer.
  • This summer, instead of sending our oldest to summer camp or day care, we kept her home.
  • I got a lot of quality time with her and it was nice to have a slower pace to our days.
  • But it also was hard to work sometimes, and she got more screen time than we'd have liked.

Sometime in mid-spring of this year, my wife and I started to panic.

"We have no plans for the kids this summer! What the heck are we going to do?"