We are Starting to "Become"!
Yeah, I know, it sounds like something from a science fiction movie! I have always been a bit negative about the moms that enroll their children in a million activities, they never have time to relax at home! I have found that my kids did best doing stuff at home like I did as a kid. My mom never sent us off to summer camp, nor did we have 5 or 6 extra curricular activities after school! Well, we have been skating on the edge of "doing things" for a while and this year Kaleigh decided she wanted to try dance. So we signed her up for a dance class. Just 4 weeks, once a week. Just to try it out. Cole is still in swimming lessons (not his choice, but hey we live in California!), and since Kaleigh had said she didn't want to do lessons anymore that was fine. Then Kaleigh decided she would like to swim, but not on a swim team. Well at the swim school they go to they have Pre-competitive swimming (just basically polishing up your strokes and your stamina) and she was encouraged by her old swim teacher to join. Kaleigh loves swimming so she asked if she could. I said sure! I loved swimming too and she is a natural! So then we found out that Cole's swim lessons are Mondays, Kaleigh would be swimming Mondays and Wednesdays. Ok so now Kaleigh has MWF activites! Plus she is also in Girl Scouts which starts this Sunday! Ok, that is more than we have ever had before! Cole is still just in swimming, but has showed an interest in Baseball, which will begin in January (I think). So the kids are finally coming up with some things that they would like to do, and I am happy, although it does mean we are "becoming" more like the other families (not a bad thing, as long as we don't overdo it. For example Kaleigh wanted to get into Choir too but I think that was because her two best friends were doing it. That would have been every TU/TH afternoon. I said no. Too much and not enough time for school work.
There is enough of that to give me a headache!