Enjoying nature during summertime.

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Summer is good time to enjoy nature with the kids. Children are home during the summer break and there is lot of time around to explore and do fun things along with them, they too come up with a lot of different ideas to do each year during summer break. Time well spent with them keeps everyone around happy. This way we also get to learn a few things and spend some quality time with them.

Here are a few ways by which we can spend some quality time with the kids and enjoy nature:

Watching the sunrise and the sunset: This can be a lot of fun, most everyone enjoys sleeping in late during summer break, but planning on waking up early for a couple of mornings enjoying a walk and the sunrise near a lake sounds fun. Watching the sunset from a beach and sounds fun too. Watching the sunrise and sunset and taking pictures sounds interesting.

Summer is a good time to look at the stars: Since the sky is clear its fun to look at the stars most children enjoy looking at the stars and the planets and learning a few things about the solar system sounds fun. This is a good way of introducing a few interesting geography lessons on the solar system as well.

Try new seasonal fruits and vegetables: Nature sure has provided us with a lot of different fruits and vegetables which are available during summer, mangoes, different types of berries, watermelons, different types of fresh seasonal vegetables, are also available, trying new fruits and vegetables and coming up with different desserts or trying a new recipe sounds fun. Children enjoy colorful food items. Cutting the fruits and vegetables in different shapes, coming up with a fruit salad, or a fresh vegetable salad the different colors makes it look colorful.  Planting a few simple plants like tomatoes, or a few herbs in the kitchen garden, sounds fun too.

Collect things while on a nature walk: Collecting, pebbles, seashells, pine cones, different leaves, rocks and coming up with a fun craft projects, like decorating photo frames with seashells, or coloring the leaves and making a colorful art project,

Watch for different birds by making a bird feeder: I enjoy looking at birds especially during spring and summer, and making a bird feeder is a good way to keep watching the birds from the window, taking a few pictures and trying to learn more about the keeps children interested and busy.

Collect flowers and leaves and dry them: Summertime is the time where we can get a lot of different fresh flowers, collecting some and drying the flowers or leaves and then helping up with a craft project sounds fun.

Nature sure has provided us with a lot of different things or ways that we can enjoy. Summer is a goodtime to spend with the kids and enjoy sometime together.

Seven ways to help us rise early.

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For most of us rising early can be very difficult, but rising early has a lot of benefits. Getting into this habit of rising early does take a couple of weeks but it does help in many different ways. Rising early gives us the required time to effectively plan our day and in turn helps us stay productive. 

Here are a few ways to help us rise early.

Sleeping at the same time: Sleeping at the same time everyday, can be tough but trying to sleep at the same time helps us wake up on time.

Waking up at the same time: Then again, waking up at the same time and not hitting the snooze button often helps us set the routine and this helps us make it easier to help us rise early.

Wake up and move: Most times we would love to sit down and have tea or coffee but often waking up and moving around watering the plants, or drying the clothes helps us.

Keep the alarm clock away: This surely works, I often keep the alarm clock away this way I am forced to wake up once the alarm rings, this often helps us wake up on time.

Having a morning ritual: Moring rituals often helps, taking sometime, enjoying a nice cup of tea with the family, watering the plants, or taking the dog for a walk, keeping sometime aside for meditation are a few ways that help us rise early.

Make the morning fun: Most times just planning on making the morning fun by adding a few activities we enjoy sounds exciting and fun, try going for a good breakfast during the weekend, planning on spending some time doing simple things we enjoy doing like reading the sports section in the morning newspaper, spending time with our children, or with the pet.

Learning something new: Keeping sometime aside and learning something new. Making it a daily routine to learn something like taking up some online courses, or some creative craft ideas. 

Come up with different ways to keep yourself motivated: Motivation is the key, but coming up with different ways to keep yourself motivated does help, reward yourself, or take advantage of the time, treat yourself with a good breakfast. 

Forming a new habit does take some time but if it beneficial and helpful why not? 

Nine simple ways keep us refreshed and help us relax.

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Working hard day in and day out running around can leave us feeling tired. Busy schedules hardly leave us anytime to relax. Taking a few minutes and spending sometime relaxing, helps us recharge and helps us focus better. Nature sure has provided us with a lot of good things, which are easily available, and its important that we too take full advantage of these simple things which help us recharge, stay healthy and keep us refreshed.

A good healthy breakfast: Most times we get busy or get late to catch the bus or the train on time and very easily skip breakfast while leaving for work, or we get busy with dropping the children at the school bus stop. But a good breakfast helps us stay healthy and does give us a required strength needed to carry on and attend to our day-to-day activities.

Freshly squeezed fruit juice: Fresh fruit juices often are very refreshing, taking a few minutes and having a nice big glass of freshly squeezed fruit juice often helps us feel refreshed.

A refreshing cup of milk: Milk can be had warm or cold, cold milkshakes are often very refreshing during summers or a nice warm cup of warm chocolate milk helps us stay warm during the monsoons or during winters. We often just skip milk but milk is very important as we grow it helps us in many different ways,

A yummy blow of fruit: Fresh fruit or seasonal fruits keep us healthy and helps us stay fit. Adding some fresh fruit in our diet or just as a snack often keeps us refreshed and helps us feel good.

Home made soup: Home made soup especially during cold winters does helps us stay warm after a long hard day at work, also this can be a healthy after school snack for our children.

Yummy yogurt: Fruity yogurt can be had as a quick snack it helps us stay healthy and keeps us refreshed. Enjoying a nice bowl of fruity yogurt after lunch or as a snack often helps us feel good.

Green tea: A refreshing cup of freshly made green tea often helps us relax and keeps us upbeat for the rest of the day.

Fresh coconut water: Fresh coconut water is very easily available in the tropical countries are very refreshing. Fresh coconut water is something many of us enjoy.

Fresh vegetables: Fresh vegetables, or seasonal vegetables, which easily are available helps us stay fit, a good bowl of fresh salad during supper or a handful of baby carrots, cucumbers, or radish can be had as a snack as well. Fresh vegetables help us stay fit and healthy.

Taking a few minutes and enjoying these simple things while doing our day to day routine sounds fun.