Wednesday, May 25, 2011

How we plan to survive this summer

I'm sure this is probably normal for plenty of families. Right? At least, for families in which one parent works full-time and one who works part-time at home. Here's the current summer schedule for the kids.

June:
  • One week at home (Monday-Wednesday) with a young babysitter from down the block.
  • Thursdays with Oma.
  • Two weeks at a park district camp near us, but not our actual resident one (which we didn't like last summer). This includes four visits to pools in neighboring suburbs.
  • Two sessions weekly with a tutor for Nea, working on literacy and math.
  • One session weekly with our private speech and language pathologist.
  • Fridays, hang out with me.
July:
  • One week at home (Monday-Wednesday) with a young babysitter from down the block.
  • One week full-time at a YMCA. This includes at least one pool visit. I won a buy-one-week-get-one-free deal, so this is a good price.
  • One week full-time at Camp Invention, a science camp the girls attended last year, too.
  • Thursdays with Oma. Except when she is at knitting camp.
  • Two sessions weekly with a tutor for Nea, working on literacy and math.
  • One session weekly with our private speech and language pathologist.
  • As time allows, Nea will go to Extended School Year classes, which are a joke, but she gets an additional 45 minutes of speech weekly there. Assuming they can work with our schedule. Right now I think she'll go 12 days out of a possible 20.
  • Fridays, hang out with me.
August:
  • I'm taking some time off, which I'll need after trying to figure out who I'm driving where in July.
  • One week at home (Monday-Wednesday) with a young babysitter from down the block.
  • Possibly some gymnastics camp and swim lessons.
  • Thursdays with Oma, plus a couple extra days just before school starts.
  • Two sessions weekly with a tutor for Nea, working on literacy and math.
  • One session weekly with our private speech and language pathologist.
  • Fridays, hang out with me.
I hope someday this will just be some confusing weird memory of how ridiculous our summers used to be.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm impressed with your ability to simply list it all, let alone live it.

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