Well Reed has an entire summer of nothingness ahead of him. We couldn't interest him in any camps, and figured it wasn't worth the money or the heartache to force him to go to a camp. So his summer will be filled with video games, I guess. He spends some time listening to music and podcasts as well. His friends Alex, Robbie and Harrison (or some combination thereof) sometimes come by to get him to go on a bike ride, which inevitably ends up at someone's house (usually Alex's) playing more video games. Reed also does solo bike rides, and his chores have ramped up some for the summer. More dish-doing, more dog walking, so he's pretty happy about that! But it's the cost of being home all day.
Amy, though, likes to do stuff. This week and last, she's been doing the schools' "Summer in the Arts" program, where she's doing two Harry Potter classes, a cake decorating class and a digital drawing class. She's really enjoying it - wish they offered it for more than just two weeks! Then she gets a week off, and then it's off to a new Girl Scout camp called "Filmtastic" which (shockingly) has a movie theme and includes archery every day. Then it's Camp Crossroads again (aka "Harry Potter camp") which she's really looking forward to. Last is "Lion's Leap," which is the Lunsford camp to help sixth graders get ready for the start of school. Maybe we'll throw in a week or two of tennis camp there at the end, we'll see.
I really wish I could remember what I did to fill my time in the summers I was our kids' ages. I remember when I was 10 and Mom and Jim just got married, we spent the summer in our new house on Pepperidge Place. I think I watched a fair amount of TV (as much as I could stand, in the days when daytime TV only meant game shows, soap operas and reruns). I'm sure I listened to a lot of music, stayed up late and slept in. The following summers I know I spent some time with friends I'd made in the neighborhood, and of course when I was 15 I got a job at Roy Rogers. Ah, youth!
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