Crazy Week

Last week, the older boys attended Sports Life Camp, a day camp at our church that was in lieu of VBS this year. The kids run around and participate in lots of active play—street hockey was the main event the boys chose. We also invited Ben and Lilli Caplan, friends/classmates of the guys. On the Sunday before, they were still looking for some volunteers. I figured it would be ridiculous for me to go all the way home for three hours with the price of a gallon of gas around $4, so I volunteered to organize/serve snacks.

You can imagine what driving five kids in a minivan to church back and forth for four days was like. Yee haw. My friend Amy, who has the three most darling little girls you’ve ever seen (two red headed beauties, ages 7 and 5, plus a little golden, curly-headed angel who is 2), volunteered for snacks too. Anyway, we had to entertain everyone five and under who belonged to us while we were popping popcorn, pouring drinks, setting out baskets of fruit roll-ups, etc. Needless to say, we spent significant amounts of time playing out on the church property (they have more undeveloped acreage in the middle of town than any church I’ve ever seen), or playing upstairs in the preschool classrooms. The guys three had a great time and Amy and I treated each other on successive days to coffee from McDonald’s and discussing deep topics.

Between getting up early on four summer mornings, carting a vanfull of kids twenty minutes times eight trips, popping about a million bags of popcorn, running around with hockey sticks, and killing time with our preschoolers for hours, the boys, Amy and I had a fun week!