End of the Year
The Crew season ended this past weekend with Stotesbury, so now it's just the final couple weeks. There had been a chance the kids would need to spend this week cleaning the boats and prepping everything for storage, but they were on top of things when they got back from Stotes so no more late pickups. Zoë's ready for me at the regular 3:45 time, and she's boggled about what to do with all her time. Even piano's over. She missed the end of the year piano recital for Stotesbury and as usual will be taking the summer off (in favor of music camps).
I always look forward to the summer and am then annoyed at how it's as busy as the school year and this summer looks no different. Zoë's going to be finishing up the planning for her Gold project and she has plans to complete all of her school-required volunteer hours. She had been thinking of doing morning practices for swim team (instead of evening practices which she's traditionally done because of camp) but then realized that would conflict with school summer soccer practices so now she's not sure what she's going to do. She doesn't know if she'd be able to do tech crew for the musical and play soccer, so she's even sort of on the fence about playing soccer next year. But since she's considering doing school swim next year it wouldn't be a bad idea to do the summer soccer or track workouts (summer swim is heavy on swim, light on dryland). Crew is definitely on for next year so if she wanted to she could make plans with the trainer at her school's gym and do crew workouts throughout the summer. This is part of what happens when I get excited about summer. I want to get the schedule completely sorted out so I know what's going on, and realize half a dozen things are still in the air.
A summer job's on hold. There are very few places that'll hire a 14 yr old and her CIT schedule + volunteer hours will take a significant amount of time. I have a suspicion that she's also going to try and talk the camp director into letting her be a counselor for real next summer, which would solve the whole summer job problem. Especially if she could tack on life guarding at our pool to fill things out. I understand the graduated drivers licensing system, but man I wish that I could be looking forward to her driving herself around next summer (the earliest she'll be able to drive w/o a licensed driver in the car is 16 yrs 6 mos old). I should get all her paperwork together and have her start studying this summer so the instant she's 15 yrs 9mos she can get her learners permit.
I always look forward to the summer and am then annoyed at how it's as busy as the school year and this summer looks no different. Zoë's going to be finishing up the planning for her Gold project and she has plans to complete all of her school-required volunteer hours. She had been thinking of doing morning practices for swim team (instead of evening practices which she's traditionally done because of camp) but then realized that would conflict with school summer soccer practices so now she's not sure what she's going to do. She doesn't know if she'd be able to do tech crew for the musical and play soccer, so she's even sort of on the fence about playing soccer next year. But since she's considering doing school swim next year it wouldn't be a bad idea to do the summer soccer or track workouts (summer swim is heavy on swim, light on dryland). Crew is definitely on for next year so if she wanted to she could make plans with the trainer at her school's gym and do crew workouts throughout the summer. This is part of what happens when I get excited about summer. I want to get the schedule completely sorted out so I know what's going on, and realize half a dozen things are still in the air.
A summer job's on hold. There are very few places that'll hire a 14 yr old and her CIT schedule + volunteer hours will take a significant amount of time. I have a suspicion that she's also going to try and talk the camp director into letting her be a counselor for real next summer, which would solve the whole summer job problem. Especially if she could tack on life guarding at our pool to fill things out. I understand the graduated drivers licensing system, but man I wish that I could be looking forward to her driving herself around next summer (the earliest she'll be able to drive w/o a licensed driver in the car is 16 yrs 6 mos old). I should get all her paperwork together and have her start studying this summer so the instant she's 15 yrs 9mos she can get her learners permit.