That's it. See you the end of June.
OK, I'm kidding. It's nearly over. But that's not too far off from what our schedule has looked like the past month.
Smidge's team took their Division Championship today in a back-to-back gruel-a-thon. 15 minutes between games! (Who scheduled that one??) But they hung in there, and nobody puked. Hallelujah! They play for the County title on Tuesday, and, being five and six, they are excited about that, when you mention it. But for the most part, they are focused on having a Team Party! PAR-TAY! WOOHOO! Partypartyparty...
John's team went all the way to the County Championships this year. They played their wee hearts out, and they have coaches who are all about doing your best -- that's a winning combination, no matter what the scoreboard looks like. We have a team of boys who have just thrived under that guidance, from the ones who hustle like there's no tomorrow, to the ones who still can't quite manage to make the bat connect with the ball, they are a team. And they did well. They lost the final game today, placing second in the County, and maintaining their Division Championship status. That is one tired bunch of boys. Thankfully, next up on the schedule is the Team Party! PAR-TAY!! (Yes, some things don't change, no matter how old they get.)
James and John had Cub Scout camp this past week. To them, it was an amazing, magical, wonderful, fun-filled week. To Zorak and I, it was something entirely different, entailing transportation schedules, an inordinate amount of laundry (who assigned the *one* t-shirt they give the kids as the daily uniform for camp? Obviously, not the person who does the laundry), and a lot of seemingly wasted time. Adults look at things through a completely different set of lenses, don't they? I know that's how it should be, or nothing much would ever get done and humanity would die off from starvation and the fumes from dirty laundry. Still, sometimes I think it would be wonderful to look at opportunities through the Kid Lens rather than through the less-thrilling GrownUp Lens.
Maybe a combination? Perspective Bi-focals, for all of life's opportunities? Think there's a market for that?
We better get on the R&D for those, because the boys now want to have their own Camp in the upper meadow, complete with tent camping, cooking on the fire, and athletics. Smidge informed me tonight that "Dad gets to come, too!" Heh. Gets to...
I'll let you know how that goes.
Kiss those babies!
~Dy
3 comments:
Congratulations to the boys and their teams!
We did a few weekend Cub and Boy Scout things and one weeklong Girl Scout day camp. The Boy Scout things were much more fun, but our little homeschool troop decided to do our own weeklong camps. We did a few day camps with the girls, one with the boys and girls, and one weeklong family sleepover camp with the boys' group and girls' group combined. We always got a lot more done, and I think the kids had more fun at our own camps. It sure was a lot of work for the leaders, though. Ugh. As much as I often miss those days, I'm kinda glad at the moment that their over. Maybe I'll change my mind after coffee:o)
I want a pair of those bifocals. They would be very useful around here. I too often get caught up in what "needs" to be done and don't take the time to just "be" with the kids.
Our day camp had a camp t-shirt, but didn't require it every day. We gave the Cubs a bandanna in their large group color and that was for everyday identification ("Oh, you're in the red group").
They go up to their new rank in June, so they could do a lot of fun activities from their new books while hanging out at Camp ForeverHome.
-- Heidi
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