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Maggie goes to camp
Jun. 4th, 2007 10:03 amI ought to post about an amazing development in Maggie's life.
We've known for some time that she was going to be going to Day Camp at church this week, M-F, 9 am - 3 pm each day. With all the uncertainty of things with the baby, we'd been wondering how we were going to manage to get her back and forth reliably and what would be happening. So when we'd signed her up, I'd talked to Janelle about maybe could we find somebody she could be in a carpool with?
Well, this is tricky, because there are few families as far from the church as we are. We're ELCA Lutherans. There is a tiny Lutheran congregation just west of here, at the "meeting in people's homes" stage. Not something I'd be comfortable suddenly bringing several rambunctious kids into, so we've never gone there. There's a nice small congregation partway between here and our current church, that we went to for a while - nice people, but very small, no nursery staff, not nearly as much of a kids' program as what we found at Calvary, so we changed to there. But it is a bit of a drive, and nobody else with kids that age is near us.
So I got a call last Friday from Janelle, the youth minister, about this. There's one staff member from this area - but it's one of the teens too young to drive anyway. Apparently each year for this Janelle ends up with several of the staff teens who don't drive staying with her, and various of her nieces and nephews come visit for it, and some of her godchildren come too. They just stay the whole week at her place, and she drives them back and forth from day camp in the church bus. And she was inviting Maggie to come along and stay, too.
What an amazingly wonderful offer! Wow.
Maggie won't know the nieces and nephews, but one of the godchildren she knows, and I bet a lot of those teen staff are also ones who've been helping with Kids' Club and she knows them. And she adores Janelle. She was very excited at the prospect.
So Karl bought her a pink duffel bag as her first personal luggage, and we packed up clothes and such for her for the week, and her sleeping bag and such. And yesterday after church Karl and Maggie and Jamie were at the summer kickoff kids' event they had, and Maggie went home with Janelle.
This has gone from "Maggie has Day Camp this week" to "Maggie's AWAY at camp this week." I expected this, but not so soon! My little girl. She'll turn 5 next Friday.
I had some serious talks with her about being on her best behavior, and remembering that Janelle and the teens are IN CHARGE and she has to be good, and if we get a call that she's not and we have to come get her that will be BAD. She seemed to be listening. I hope she's good. It sounds like her godparents may come visit her during the week, which she'd love, and there was talk about getting her to come home and visit if/when the baby comes.
We've known for some time that she was going to be going to Day Camp at church this week, M-F, 9 am - 3 pm each day. With all the uncertainty of things with the baby, we'd been wondering how we were going to manage to get her back and forth reliably and what would be happening. So when we'd signed her up, I'd talked to Janelle about maybe could we find somebody she could be in a carpool with?
Well, this is tricky, because there are few families as far from the church as we are. We're ELCA Lutherans. There is a tiny Lutheran congregation just west of here, at the "meeting in people's homes" stage. Not something I'd be comfortable suddenly bringing several rambunctious kids into, so we've never gone there. There's a nice small congregation partway between here and our current church, that we went to for a while - nice people, but very small, no nursery staff, not nearly as much of a kids' program as what we found at Calvary, so we changed to there. But it is a bit of a drive, and nobody else with kids that age is near us.
So I got a call last Friday from Janelle, the youth minister, about this. There's one staff member from this area - but it's one of the teens too young to drive anyway. Apparently each year for this Janelle ends up with several of the staff teens who don't drive staying with her, and various of her nieces and nephews come visit for it, and some of her godchildren come too. They just stay the whole week at her place, and she drives them back and forth from day camp in the church bus. And she was inviting Maggie to come along and stay, too.
What an amazingly wonderful offer! Wow.
Maggie won't know the nieces and nephews, but one of the godchildren she knows, and I bet a lot of those teen staff are also ones who've been helping with Kids' Club and she knows them. And she adores Janelle. She was very excited at the prospect.
So Karl bought her a pink duffel bag as her first personal luggage, and we packed up clothes and such for her for the week, and her sleeping bag and such. And yesterday after church Karl and Maggie and Jamie were at the summer kickoff kids' event they had, and Maggie went home with Janelle.
This has gone from "Maggie has Day Camp this week" to "Maggie's AWAY at camp this week." I expected this, but not so soon! My little girl. She'll turn 5 next Friday.
I had some serious talks with her about being on her best behavior, and remembering that Janelle and the teens are IN CHARGE and she has to be good, and if we get a call that she's not and we have to come get her that will be BAD. She seemed to be listening. I hope she's good. It sounds like her godparents may come visit her during the week, which she'd love, and there was talk about getting her to come home and visit if/when the baby comes.
