Working Vacation

We spent the last few days in Austin at a CC conference, where I received some necessary training and the kids participated in some fun day camps. Ruth was in a writing camp, where she honed some of her creative writing skills and even got selected on the last day to read her paper in front of 100 or more adults attending the meetings. She never faltered. She just stepped right up to the mic, told her name and where she was from, and wowed the room with her well-written and equally well-performed paper. Weston was in a Geography Drawing camp, and his group got up to show off some of their drawings and to perform a little song about the continents. Max was in "Play Camp," but they did much more than play. They worked on some of the upcoming CC memory work and got up to perform a couple songs about the parts of a plant and the classifications of living things. Clay was in the nursery, but his teacher told me she thought he was ready for college because he was so smart! The kids had a blast, and I was so very proud of all of them. My training sessions were fantastic, so it was a good experience for everyone.

And when we weren't at the practicum, we were playing at The Domain--a fun shopping area, with lots of cool restaurants and a couple of neat hotels. The kids played in the pool at our hotel and enjoyed The Domain's play areas. And I enjoyed poking into a few of the stores while Jeff watched the kids.