And so it begins

Summertime, and the living is easy--or so you hear in Porgy and Bess, my favorite opera.

Summer officially begins today or tomorrow, depending on who you ask. Summer camp officially began this morning. Oyster has about half an hour left of her first day of camp, and I anticipate picking up one very tired girl today. But it will be a good kind of tired.

She left this morning sporting a pair of white shorts over her black swimsuit. She listened to my warnings that if she sits in the dirt and gets them grimy I will probably not be able to make them pristine ever again. Fashion won out over good sense, in my opinion. While I am hoping she doesn't get disappointed, I think it would be a good lesson learned if she is. Well, at least I hope she will learn.

It is hard for parents to allow children to make mistakes and be disappointed, but I think it is important for them to do so. I won't be around to correct her decisions when she is an adult, so she needs to learn to think about the possible outcome of the different options and choose wisely. Just as importantly, she needs to learn to cope with the consequences of making a less than wise choice.

So, we have several weeks of camping fun laid out for the child's summer. She had a four-day session of beginning sewing last week, which she thoroughly enjoyed and begged to return this week for the next class. However, when given the option of real, outdoor, swimming, running, hiking, playing camp, she decided she can learn other sewing skills from Mom. Hope Mom is up to the task.

Curiosity

Anyone know what's up with Polio's blog? I clicked on it and discovered he was up to 33 posts on his Christmas list for 2007. Thinking that was more than I had recalled from the last dozen or more times I visited, I checked them out--expecting family and friends to be making encouraging comments about updating the posts. Or snide remarks. Whatever.

What I discovered was a list of posts in the last few months that appear to be coming from another country--or at least are being posted in a language that is not English. Polio--are these friends of yours? Nosy people want to know what they have written.

Has Polio's blog become popular in another place and if he would just keep it up he could get a cult following? Has he learned a new language and is practicing his conversational skills?

Nosy people want to know. At least this one does.