May 30, 2009

Karen has asked me to watch Sarah and Randy, my 9 year old twin grandchildren for 4 weeks this summer because Chris, her mother in-law, is going to San Francisco. Karen and Randy both have to work. It will be during the last two weeks in July and the first two weeks in August. Although I am looking forward to it I am also very anxious about how it will all work.

I want the kids to have a super great time with Papa De and I so I am working on a schedule of things we will be doing . So far I have trips to the beach, library, park, water park and movies planned. I also need things for us to do on rainy days. I am also going to teach them Spanish.

Having the kids Monday thru Friday for 4 weeks I know is going to be exhausting so I am preparing myself mentally and praying that I can meet the challenge.

For me PREPARATION is the key.

I have named our time together " Country Summer Camp with Grandma De and Papa De" I want to include Papa into our planning because the kids really enjoy him and he needs a little spark of youth.

I live on 2 1/2 acres. Although I do not have farm animals of any kind several neighbors have horses. I plan to ask them if I can bring the kids over so they can see what the daily life of a horse is. I am going to explore this in more detail after I speak with my neighbor.

In the days to come I am going to be blogging as I develop my summer camp program. I invite anyone that has a creative idea to share with me. I really want my grandkids to have fun, experience new things, meet new people and learn while doing so.

I just spoke with the grandkids. They want to see Mall Cop when they are with me this summer.
I decided to illicit their input on what they would like to do while at Grandma De's Summer Country Camp. In the days to come we will talk more about it.