I thought that we had a pretty low-key summer planned, but we actually have barely caught our breath all month. This week the kids are doing just a six-day swimming lesson session to kick start their skills before a summer at the pool. We couldn’t find anyone to teach lessons on campus, so we’re driving back to TO to do lessons (Janie’s first!) at our old parks and rec pool. While we’re through the canyon, anyway, we’ve been knocking out orthodontist and pediatrician appointments, play dates, and the like. Yesterday we drove up to Camarillo after our swimming lessons to do a book club on Dr. Dolittle with the Neals! Analyn arranged for us to visit their friends who have three varieties of chickens, a duck, rabbits, and a dog so we could get a taste of what Dr. Dolittle’s house might be like! Then we stopped off at Leo Carrillo on the way home and met the Daughritys for a few hours of tide pooling. Today after lessons, we hung out with the DenHartogs (and Sarah and I split a Sprouts run like in the old days), had our last French class with Marion, ran errands, stopped in at the TO library to get our next set of summer reading program prizes, then drove back up to Camarillo to meet up with our old community group for a food truck festival for dinner. We finally got home TWELVE HOURS after leaving, and everyone pretty much collapsed in bed. Tomorrow we have to take Derek to the airport and do our last piano lessons in Santa Monica before summer break, but after that, I think we’re all ready for a stay-at-home day of lounging and reading…
