Comments:

Claudia - 2006-05-01 16:05:33
My comments keep getting spam-blocked. Sigh! Anyhow, I meant to comment on your Who Need Donuts comment but now...I can't remember what I said except that, yeah, I'm not ready for a chemical explosion either. My summer is made easier (tho not easy) by the fact that Dusty's current preschool/daycare center has a full-time summer program that includes swimming lessons. I'm set. Now, my husband's teaching schedule does not mesh with Red's at-home schedule. So, I'm still screwed.
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Smed - 2006-05-01 16:13:42
Would you take out the Maginot line? Heh.
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elgan - 2006-05-01 16:41:21
Happy 1,000th! Hurrah! If I may offer a wee bit of experienced advice, since my children have survived childhood, and we also survived their childhood, you are attempting too much too soon with too much intensity. Pick one thing (day camp with swimming lessons five mornings a week sounds ideal if it�s possible) and stick with it. Language lessons? Left-handed knot tying? Your son will be exhausted and so will you. He can learn Coptic next year if he�s still keen on it, but I bet your booties that if you sign him up for all the activites you�ve listed in your entry, he will end up dropping out of most of them. Of course, you are completely free to disregard everything I�ve said and then I can wag my finger at you at a later date and say �I told you so� in a most self-satisfied way, or you can invade France. It�s all good.
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Harriet - 2006-05-01 16:48:48
It's excellent advice to which I usually willingly subscribe -- AJ is probably the least scheduled kid in his class. We've been doing one thing at a time plus school. But this is an issue of childcare as much as anything. I need to cover as many hours as fruitfully as possible for AJ and as frugally as possible for us. I want him to have fun, but I also need to get my work done. This is in lieu of babysitting rather than anything else. T-ball is his one sport. The rest is the school replacement. It's just a matter of how many different things we try to fill in the gaps.
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Zon - 2006-05-01 17:14:43
1,000th! Wow, that is great! Don't go changin'...
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chris - 2006-05-01 18:29:47
welcome to summer camp hell! I'm just coming out the other end -- M is taking drawing three mornings a week, with a week of afternoon rockclimbing and three days of horse camp. Probably there will be horseriding lessons, too. Once a week. For simplicity, we are sending N to Spain! I have no good advice on this one. Just sympathy. Charts are essential. (I guess this constitutes advice.) Just wait until everything has to be done with a friend! And you are right -- it increases exponentially with each child.
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Smed - 2006-05-01 22:08:47
Oh, yeah, happy 1,000!!!! Wowser!
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fin - 2006-05-01 22:17:10
happy one thousand!
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lemming - 2006-05-02 13:00:21
You are being a very good mother. Relax, already!!!
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Kelley2 - 2006-05-04 21:43:07
And the food is better in France than at daycamp. Pick France. As someone who is home all day with a baby *and* working (from home), you have my sympathy! Congrats on the 1000 entry!
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