CJ gets out of school on Thursday and I have made NO plans for his summer. I'm a bad mom. GAH!!!!

Our kindergarten mother e-mail list has been full of, "I signed Johnny up for this," sorts of messages.

We're a one-car family right now, and the dh's job has transferred to a place not accessible by public transit (the 2nd car died the week he was transferred and would cost more to fix than it's worth). I have signed my kids up for nothing, and I don't even care.

Maybe it's just me, but I remember the summers of my childhood as this magical time when I could just go do nothing (cf Christopher Robin), and I actually think I'm giving my kids something by giving them a season of nothing.

There must be a stand-up comedy camp for CJ...

OMG, that would be perfect. I was just thinking about how to channel that energy. He needs a Jim Carrey school of comedy.

It's not too early for ice cream, right? Good.

I do believe I read a certain Nutty one reporting ice cream for breakfast.

Wow, Fay, 1000 pounds a week?

I know, I know. I'd have to rob a bank.

But, dude. Did you SEE the ship? I didn't have any idea that this kind of thing was attainable. I mean, I spent £700 getting out to San Francisco from Egypt, so £1000 seems less horrific than it would have done before. Because - pirate tall ship!!! While I'm being a TEACHER IN SIAM!!!!!

swoons

I do believe I read a certain Nutty one reporting ice cream for breakfast.

Go Nutty! We Somervillains are cool. Or something.

Suzi, there's a list of Berkeley/Oakland/El Cerrito camps here: [link]

Maybe you can sign him up for some drama, or something.

((sj))

I think I will be ready for ice cream after I get myself some coffee. I know I will be ready for ice cream after this morning's meeting.

Maybe it's just me, but I remember the summers of my childhood as this magical time when I could just go do nothing (cf Christopher Robin), and I actually think I'm giving my kids something by giving them a season of nothing.

For what it's worth, we're seeing the first wave of "over-scheduled, over-protected" children in colleges and universities and lack of independence (and initiative) is a common complaint among professors.

I think that there's over scheduled, and then there's energy to burn. Some of my nieces and nephews -- well, let me say it like this -- my sisters need a break from some of their kids. One of my sisters once described her son as "like having a dog -- if he doesn't get out for a good run every day he'd chew my furniture." When she's working full time, she doesn't always have the time to get him out for that run.

(((sj))) Here's hoping it goes better than you expect.

Go, abx! Give Nora back her UTI-free body! And leave the happy good bacteria alone!

Raq, rrrrowwrrr. Not a "mommy cut" at all. Also? Great timing, getting under cover before the deluge.

Re: fic, I'm still scarred over the wrong-like-a-wrong-thing, but oh-so-hot Joyce-Holland-Snyder thing Plei wrote. Um.

Also? ships pretty!

Oh, I don't want to over schedule him, but I don't want to make my mom responsible for him all summer. She is the only adult who will be home, that is when she is not in the hospital. With her health, I don't want to depend on her 100%.

Now that K-Bug has her driver's license, she will want to be out and about and she can't drive him anywhere yet - not until next March, actually.

So - he will probably end up in the park program for the summer. Or at least, a good part of the summer - that is what I still need to figure out.