Blur ..

This week (and the next two weeks) have been a blur of ...

... picking up Alison from camp
... taking Claire every morning, for the morning only, to a drama camp in Milford
... taking Iain to the dentist for yet another tooth to be pulled (he's having 6 in total removed)
... taking Alison to her stable job
... if raining, taking Alison to her babysitting job
... working on my website job
... attempting to beat the house in to submission (thank you Claire for your hard work yesterday!!!)

Claire is loving camp! Auditions were yesterday and today ... she's hoping for a major role. The kids are helping write music and write the script as well as presenting the play ... a historical biography about the founder of Milford, Ontario. Bizarrely, with a group of students they KNEW would be primarily girls, the camp is using a play with only male roles :-). So her 2008 productions involve being a witch and a man ... both low on her list of chosen roles :-).

Alison loved 4H Youth Adventure Camp and is already looking forward to next year. Her favourite parts were the orienteering and survival training, plus just the chance to meet new kids from different counties and spend more time with some from the county she knows already. Small world moment; one of her new friends from Junior Day last week AND camp this week is the daughter of a fellow I knew at university and danced with regularly at junior farmer dances ;-). I've even been to his folks' farm near Peterborough. (As soon as I saw the member list with Clara Leahy's name on it, I told Alison to find out if her dad's name was Bernie!). And yes, these folks are related distantly to "The Leahy Family"; went to school with a cousin of the band.

Iain is enjoying lots of "only child" time, and the chance to work on his summer school work (heh, heh, mean mom is making him do some bridge work before grade 6) at the library, or at the Bean Counter, or in a park, or in Miss Lily's Cafe :-). He has no complaints, and actually mentioned yesterday that he'd forgotten these benefits of "home"-schooling (or as we like to call it, community-based education!).

Ack! Gotta run. 15 minutes to eat and get everyone out the door to drop off Alison. This pace is nuts!