Summer Time in Full Swing: Camps, Pool, and More

This week in review:

Camps:

E+H are doing Intensive Farming camp at the Colonial Homestead. 

• Hours: 9-3
• Less than 10 min drive from home (the homestead is located at the nearby state park)
• They have been picking berries, learning about bee keeping, helping to take care of farm animals, cooking on a large fireplace/hearth, helping harvest wheat and flax. 
• Mainly outside - no air conditioning... they seem to be OK even though it's been very hot (90's) and humid.
• E and H both really, really like this camp!

C is in school district camps this week: Baking and Sports Extravaganza.

• Hours: 9-12 for the morning camp (Baking) and 12-3 for the afternoon camp (Sports)
• ~ 5 min drive from home
• C has been bringing baked goodies home (spinach muffins, soda cake, pizza) 
• She's been talking about all the different sports games they play in the afternoons (some of them, like soccer and dodge ball, make sense while others are a complete mystery... Star Wars? Castle Ball? Endless Tag?) 
• I get a sense that she mostly likes it but maybe not quite out-of-this world loves it.

Pool:

Kids can bike to our local pool pretty much any time they want to. They've gone Saturday (husband and I joined them), Sunday, Tuesday (husband and I joined them), and Wednesday so far. 

Work:

• Intense and very busy. I work from home and husband has a hybrid office/home schedule.

Other:

• This week, all 3 kids have their individual music lessons (piano, violin, cello)
• E can't go to cross country practices because of camp
• E has a couple of days working at the local pool (he is a lifeguard). It is so nice that he can bike to work!
• The 2 different camps our kids are attending have drop off and pick up at the same time... of course, the camps are in complete opposite directions, but it hasn't been too bad. My husband works from home twice a week, which makes drop off and pick up much easier. On days when he goes into the office, I drop off all the kids (2 different locations), which takes about half an hour. My parents pick up C in the afternoon, and I pick up E+H.

• Kids have been making their own lunches! I love it.

Next week preview: only C has camp; E will have cross country training; H will hopefully find a project she can work on (but will probably be spending a major chunk of time watching Reign...) Note to self - stop by the library and get a pile of books that kids can read and come up with tasks/chores for big kids.

How do your kids entertain themselves when they are home? Do you have chores for them?