The girls are off at camp

[pegkerr]

We drove the girls to a one week music camp this past Saturday. They will spend the week working on orchestral pieces and bell choir pieces and putting together a musical, and we'll get to see it when we go pick them up next Saturday. They've been to this camp before and enjoy it enormously, and they've really been looking forward to going again this year.

The house sure seems dreadfully quiet without them. And it makes me a little sad that Delia's not there to greet me when I ride my bike into the garage at the end of the day.

On the other hand, I'm not finding half-empty glasses of milk all over the place, either.

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[snippy]

I'm in the opposite boat. Four years ago both my kids had moved in with their dad, and while they've come up for weekend visits and even the occasional month in the summer, we've mostly lived the empty next lifestyle since then.

Now the younger one has graduated high school and moved back in with us for the summer (we're in a much bigger city with more opportunities of all kinds--school, jobs, play--than his dad is) and I'm getting tense over never having the house to myself.

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

Oh, how fun for them. Every summer during high school, I went to a week-long church-sponsored music camp, and we presented a ten or twelve-anthem concert at the end of the week. Of course, we also spent evening hours around one of the pianos, playing & singing Rogers & Hammerstein, etc. Good memories. (The icon is from a photo I took of the main building; it was built in the 1860s, had Underground Railroad history, and was just generally a wonderful place.)

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

Does it help if you think of the glasses of milk as half full? ::ducks::