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Summer begins
Jul. 9th, 2014 12:41 pm(Cross-posted from Facebook, with some modifications.)
Day Three of the kids attending two different day-camps (after starting their summer with a week and a half of almost complete freedom). This is the first year I've been willing to try this kids-at-different-places thing, and it's mostly only because Isaac is old enough now to get himself places. Although he can't yet get himself to camp, he can at least leave the camp location and go hang out somewhere nearby, if I'm not able to get there in time.
Also, this week he has baseball practice most evenings (did I mention that he was selected for the summer all-star team?), and fortuitously the camp is right across the street from the baseball field, so that should work out nicely. On Monday he left camp by himself, went to the nearby pizza parlor and got a slice, then took himself to the practice. But then a sudden thunderstorm blew in after only about 20 minutes of practice, and the coaches decided to call it off rather than risk being out there on the field with metal baseball bats in the midst of lightning. Good call, coaches. Fortunately Ruthie and I were nearby and could come right over and retrieve Isaac. It didn't actually start raining until maybe 10-15 minutes after we got home, but then it was torrential downpours and major thunder/lightning sporadically for the rest of the night. (On Tuesday, yesterday, we tried all that again and it went well -- no thunderstorm, so the practice proceeded -- the only problem being that the pizza place was out of slices so Isaac was ravenous when Ruthie and I picked him up.)
But I digress. The point being, the different-camps thing. We're doing that for the next four weeks, with Ruthie going to one camp for two weeks and then another for the next two weeks, and Isaac staying at the same place the whole time. I'm hoping to work out the dropoff and pickup process to be a bit smoother than they were yesterday and this morning, but we'll see.
And Isaac has baseball practices or games every Tues/Thurs for the next several weeks, plus both he and Ruthie are doing various classes with the Open Air Circus two evenings per week, so it isn't like we're going to be any less busy now that school's out! Hoo boy. Wish us luck.
Day Three of the kids attending two different day-camps (after starting their summer with a week and a half of almost complete freedom). This is the first year I've been willing to try this kids-at-different-places thing, and it's mostly only because Isaac is old enough now to get himself places. Although he can't yet get himself to camp, he can at least leave the camp location and go hang out somewhere nearby, if I'm not able to get there in time.
Also, this week he has baseball practice most evenings (did I mention that he was selected for the summer all-star team?), and fortuitously the camp is right across the street from the baseball field, so that should work out nicely. On Monday he left camp by himself, went to the nearby pizza parlor and got a slice, then took himself to the practice. But then a sudden thunderstorm blew in after only about 20 minutes of practice, and the coaches decided to call it off rather than risk being out there on the field with metal baseball bats in the midst of lightning. Good call, coaches. Fortunately Ruthie and I were nearby and could come right over and retrieve Isaac. It didn't actually start raining until maybe 10-15 minutes after we got home, but then it was torrential downpours and major thunder/lightning sporadically for the rest of the night. (On Tuesday, yesterday, we tried all that again and it went well -- no thunderstorm, so the practice proceeded -- the only problem being that the pizza place was out of slices so Isaac was ravenous when Ruthie and I picked him up.)
But I digress. The point being, the different-camps thing. We're doing that for the next four weeks, with Ruthie going to one camp for two weeks and then another for the next two weeks, and Isaac staying at the same place the whole time. I'm hoping to work out the dropoff and pickup process to be a bit smoother than they were yesterday and this morning, but we'll see.
And Isaac has baseball practices or games every Tues/Thurs for the next several weeks, plus both he and Ruthie are doing various classes with the Open Air Circus two evenings per week, so it isn't like we're going to be any less busy now that school's out! Hoo boy. Wish us luck.
