9:03 amThe Calm Before the Storm
Today is Zoe’s last day of preschool. *sigh* Yeah, I’ve known this day’s been coming for a long time, but it doesn’t change the weird-ish feeling in my gut. My baby is finished—forever—with preschool. She’s had the same teacher for the last two years, so she’s, understandably, having some separation anxiety.
Jachin’s last day of school is tomorrow, and tomorrow is really a fake day. He goes for an hour—just long enough to give his teacher a present and get grass stain on his clothes before peddling back home on his new bike that is way too huge for him. Then there is Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Three measly days to rest before…
Monday! Monday marks the beginning of our insane summer. Summer is actually MORE packed with shuttling kids around, shelling out cash for various items of absolutely no worth (like the $4.00 hotdog at the local pool), and dealing with lost items that will never, ever be found (like the goggles Jachin lost on our trip to St. George ). You lose something during the school year, there’s a fifty-fifty chance you’ll be able to locate it in the school’s Lost and Found closet. You lose something during the summer, and you’re just screwed. That item now belongs to the Lost and Found closet of the Mysterious Universe.
I love where we live, though, in that there are several very kid-friendly places all within biking distance of our new house… places that we will be frequenting all summer. First there is the Scera, home of weekly kid movies with 50 cent popcorn, a cool pool (the site for the kids’ daily swimming lessons), several parks, outdoor movies and plays, acting camps, and a slew of other neat things. Last summer the Scera did a pirate day camp that went along with their Peter Pan production. The kids learned some basic fencing moves, walked a plank, wore cute pirate bandanas, and got to fly over the stage in the harness-thingy. It was very cool. Other than the Scera, there is also the Orem Rec Center, home of dance lessons, indoor swimming, basketball camp, and coach pitch. Thanksgiving Point—although not within walking distance—has a ton of cool things including the dinosaur museum, a petting zoo, an amazing golf course, and huge gardens with an outdoor amphitheater with an awesome waterfall backdrop. (Def Leppard played there last summer and I missed it, darn it!! If they ever come again, I vow to be in the front row.) UVSU has a Single A (thanks, Grant) baseball team—the Owlz—that the kids love…they have fireworks every Friday after the games. BYU has a sweet animal museum and planetarium. Basically, we live in a great area for kid activities.
And all of this starts Monday.
So here I sit, 4 days until D-Day, taking a big inhale. Going to my happy place… while I still can.
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Wow, you do live in a great place for kids! Most of the stuff there is for Julia to do is at least 20 miles away.
Enjoy your last few days of peace.
Comment by Leslie — May 30, 2007 @ 10:39 am
The Owlz are A not AAA.
Comment by Grant — May 30, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
@Grant- I totally knew that. The “A” key must have stuck. =)
Comment by growupslowly — May 30, 2007 @ 7:11 pm