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My 14 year old son is getting ready to go to week long band camp. He leaves on Sunday for the University of Arkansas. Luckily, this is not our first band camp experience, or I would be having an anxiety attack right now. As it is, I’m just getting ready to miss him terribly.
You know what will keep your mind off your kid leaving for a week? Taking that kid shopping, because he’s outgrown all his decent clothes and apparently decent clothes are a requirement for camp. Shopping is not my thing anyway, and shopping with a teenage boy, um, NO.
Tanner is very excited for band camp, and he was very excited to go shopping today too. Of course, you know the day couldn’t go off without a hitch. We were in the car, getting on the highway to go to the closest mall, when he shows me his hand. His hand that is covered in poison ivy. Then he shows me where it is spreading to his arm. Are you kidding! I can’t send my kid to camp like that. We’ve been down the poison ivy road before too, so I know it will cover his entire body within 24 hours. I had to take a detour to the doctors office to get him a shot and some other medication. The poor kid was not happy to delay his shopping, and he was even less happy about getting a shot. He hates shots with a passion, and he swore that he would take the pills the doctor offered. Right. At camp, with no parents to remind him, I’m pretty sure he would not remember to take medicine. I just hope he remembers to sleep a little.
So it was a long day, and tomorrow will be spend doing his laundry and packing. I guess it’s a good thing that it takes so much work to get him out the door, because I’ll be so tired by Sunday I might not remember how much I’m going to miss that kid. Or not.
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4 Responses to “What will we do without him for a week??”
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Robyns Online World on July 14th, 2009 3:16 pm
As much as I know I would miss my son, I would LOVE for him to go away for a week of camp. I need a break these days!
Sheri on July 14th, 2009 9:22 pm
I needed the break, too. Not necessarily from him, but from having two of them home all the time. And they needed a break from each other too. It’s so quiet here with just one kid at home!
As much as I miss him, I am conspiring to send both of them to their grandparents before school starts – then it will REALLY be quiet around here
We all need a break once in awhile.
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