Note to self: Ask the kids if they have their cleats and other sports equipment BEFORE driving a half-hour to a game.
It isn't all that fun to race home in order to pick up the forgotten item(s) and then be hounded by panicked cell phone calls and texts as you're making your way back to the field and hoping you don't get a speeding ticket.
My campaign to cultivate feminists in my household continued as I showed the kids the movie A League of Their Own, about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the first professional women's baseball league started during World War II.
Love this movie. Makes me cry every time.
The Girl said she found it "inspiring," particularly because, as she said, "If they could do that back then [become respected athletes despite naysayers], girls can do it now."
Read Father's Day
I just finished the new book by Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, called Father's Day, about a cross-country road trip he took with one of his adult sons who had suffered brain damage during a traumatic, extremely premature birth. And while I'll write a longer piece about the book later, suffice is to say that it's heart-rending, poignant and a total page-turner.
Summer Camps
For the first time, the three kids have actually said they want to go to a day camp or an activity this summer. They usually want nothing to do with these sorts of things so when they first mentioned it, I did nothing about it. Zip. Nada. Just nodded and continued on with what I was doing.
Only they haven't stopped inquiring. They, apparently, do want to go to something. Is it too late to sign them up for anything? Is this like trying to start and finish your Christmas shopping on December 24?
Image credit: IMDB.
You should be in luck on the whole camp signup thing. I've found most day camps have a June 1st deadline. One person I spoke with said they have to, because no one plans ahead anymore; the camp managers have had a great debate going about whether people really can't plan far in advance due to job/family issues, if it's due to money concerns/deposits, people are just THAT self-absorbed and from the "it's-all-about-me" camp, or if they, like so many other people, don't want to commit to anything lest they miss out on something better.
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