July-August are most annoying months for stay-at-home mom who is too used to spend time alone in a silence. You better prepare yourself to constant noises or/and to constant proposals like "Mom, do you want to play soccer with me?"(Sorry son, I don't feel like kicking a ball when it is 90F, oh it is Fahrenheit, in Celsius to which I'm familiar is around 32C) or "Mom, why don't we go to ride scooter?"(Sorry again but I am around 40 years old, I can't ride a scooter in a street with you and scream Yoo-hoo!!)
My point is, how can both of us spend a "cool" summer?
Well, summer camp program is my savior. I begin to study religiouly brochures at Christmas season. I think we can classify those camps into four categories.
1. All day summer camps organized by private schools, counties or plenty of other private campanies
2. Sports or cultural activities camps
3. Specific objective camps
4. Sleep over camps
1. Normally registrations for summer camps begin in January. Yes, January, six months before summer!! If you want to enroll your kids to famous private schools like Maret, National Cathedral, Landon, St. Albans, Sidwell Friends(where Obama daughthers study) or Holton Arms etc, you apprently have to be very quick. Or you need to know someone who already studies there.
Otherwise, Montgomery county or YMCA organize also all day multiple activities camps.
2. My children normally go two or three weeks of one of these sports or cultural activities camps. You can find any sports actitivies even skating in summer! Just watch out, sports we need specific space like tennis, golf, ice skating or horseback riding fill out quickly. You have of course theater, music, pottery, drawing etc too. Glen echo summer camp
3. I always find amazing how diverse these activities can be. If you want to learn Japanese during your summer vacation in D.C...yes, you can! If you want to learn about a religion, you have Jewish camp. You can even learn how to manage your financial life at 5 years old...Wow!! If you are a future top model, you have to attend "Red Sprincle Fashion Beauty Course" or if you feel like you are the incarnation of M. Jobs at the age of 8, you can attend "electronic design camp"
You still have to work as a driver...but you can spend some precious quite moment and children learn and enjoy. This is our summer win-win situation!!
Prepare your summer(if you read this now, well, prepare for next year) and enjoy your(your kids and yourself) summer!!
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