Camp

It's that time of year again, and tomorrow morning, almost at the crackers of dawn, Kate will go whizzing off to upper, outer, far far away Maine for a month. She has been making lists and checking them twice. Alice has been making lists and checking them twice and there has been much stuff to buy such as shampoo and flashlights. flashlights of course are the some of the most exciting items. And this year we've had to buy shorts. Kate will never have to buy another top as long as she lives but apparently this year she needs shorts. I'm a little afraid that she's going to need rubber rain boots because I've heard from returning campers that these were an in demand item because it rained alot. I had to assert my authority to insist that Kate also take a sweater or a fleece in spite of her insistence that layering with long sleeve shirts would do the trick. Not. And of course purell handf sanitizer is another essential because of the spread of the N1H1 virus to many of the camps in Maine although hers has had NO cases. Primarily I think because they've been smart and careful. Lets see what happens with a new crop of campers coming in to change the ecological balance. Maybe they'll add a temperature check to the old head lice check.

Life is complicated.