We had a great long weekend of family time, going to the Deifenbunker museum (i am sure i spelled it wrong), Dairy Queen, hiking in the Gatineau hills and enjoying a trip to the "quebec loblaws" as we call it and then finishing it off with a 2 hour drive to and from Arden ontario.
We drove our oldest to summer camp and hope that this year he'll cry a lot less than last year.
a sensitive creature he is!
but thankfully (i can't believe i am saying this!) it is a catholic-faith-based western-themed camp, so friendship and support by everyone including his peers is the name of the game.
Last year he spent a lot of time crying and being upset by the whole experience that he never wanted to go back. A few months ago he changed his mind, so i agreed to go along with it. The night before we left he broke down and he welled up as I was leaving (after sticking around for an hour and a half) I hope that his first night went better.
I think it may help that they actually remembered him! can you imagine that! every week for the entire summer they have new kids and a year has passed since he spent a week there, and as soon as they saw him they new his name! One teen boy was his cabin councilor was so happy to see him he practically hugged him as he told him how happy he was to see him again! Talk about making it easier to stick it out!
They had even sent him a birthday card and greeting magnet in September! I like this place alot! I may not talk about religion or faith in our home, however, I appreciate the values that the camp upholds and even appreciate the fact that the kids he is with are so much more faithful than other kids that "go to" catholic schools. The cabin he is in now was listening to rock music on the councillors ipod boombox....after listening for a while it turned out to be faith rock. not a bad influence if you ask me.
The only trouble i did have yesterday was convincing my 4 year old to come home with me, and that he was not able to stay there yet...boy was he upset!! They are usually attached at the hip, and this does cause problems most of the time! As he already missed his brother.
And i am going to spend the week with Gail Vaz-Oxlade's book and try to figure our how to do the same for our finances, so we can leave our condo by next summer and not move into another one!
Wish me luck with that one! I have tried many different versions of a budget work sheet and they all end up being too much labour to follow so end up being left behind...maybe i am not committed enough to them...or maybe they just didn't work. i know that there was one version of having "accounts" on paper for each category of spending and that the money was put into each category, and that was what that account had to spend. it looked great on paper, it looked great in the book i read ( which i cannot remember) but it never worked for us in reality, because the money never balanced.
Never give up and keep trying to find the one the works!
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