What I learned Tuesday: ideas for staying cool in the heat

 Hello,

It is flipping 🥵 this week. So here’s a list of some of our hot activities to stay cool without overdoing the A/C. As per the air quality alerts the recommendations are: don’t idle your car, avoid driving alone, done use gas powered lawn equipment, and fill up your car after 8pm. Basically try to avoid adding to the issue.

Grant rides his bike in most mornings and I drive the kids into school on my way to the zoo so we do our best there, we only fill up once a week usually, and we don’t idle waiting for school though sometimes have to a little if we pick up Grant when it’s too hot for him to ride home. I’m not going to have him ride his bike over 90 in the sun, too easy to overdo it on the hills around here and get heat exhaustion or worse. We also have our house set to 74 and will likely move that up a little today because even 75 or 76 will feel cold in comparison.

Ideas for this afternoon activities with the kids:

- kiddie pool in the backyard

- lazy day inside

- pool at the ymca

- game day inside (Leo LOVES board games so we play one almost every day)

That’s all for today, stay cool everyone!

💛 Jess