Though I'm not a parent (yet) and still attending university, I decided to follow your suggestion to take my keyboard in hand, and I hope that you won't take this act the wrong way.
What I read this summer (ill-assorted and entirely partial):
Brief Interviews with Hideous Man by David Foster Wallace
Kiss of Death by Valentina Cilescu
The Fixation Of Belief, How to Make Our Ideas Clear (et al.) by Charles S. Peirce
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Art as Experience by John Dewey
Ueber Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralischen Sinne by Friedrich Nietzsche
Out of Error by David Miller
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Some hundred stories on Literotica...
What projects lurk in my mind:
Several papers for university
Revising (and/or reworking) three story drafts dating back some time by now
Fleshing out a story idea that came to me recently
An essay on criticism and comments
An English to German translation of An Aperture Apart
and so many more in the idea nooks of my imagination...