Summer is almost here. The warm sun, the beaches, the parks, the longer days, no school, no school and longer days...oh the horror! 3 months with no preschool. What is one to do? Thankfully there's a four letter word that is the perfect solution: camp. We decided to sign our Older Son (OS) up for camp. I would have signed my younger son (YS), our dog Gandalf, our two cats too, and my husband up as well, but oddly enough I couldn't find a place to take all of them.
Last year OS went to camp at his preschool. All I had to do was mail in a form with a check. I assumed that all camps worked the same way, which is why I stopped at the front counter of the Y with my wallet out and asked to enroll OS. I was given a booklet with forms. I filled out the forms and then tried to submit them. It was no good because the application was considered incomplete without a copy of OS's medical records.
While annoying, I figured it wasn't too much of a problem because OS's pediatrician's office is on the way to preschool. I dropped off the forms at the doctor's office and then made a major mistake. I have no idea what I was thinking. I told the doctor's office not to mail the forms to me because I would just pick them up. It would be faster that way and the camp registration had a deadline after all. Yeah, I really don't know what planet I was on. I hate having to load and unload the kids on a good day. I can't think of a time where I've ever thought, "Wow, today I would like to add an extra trip so I can load and unload the kids, particularly at the doctor's office, where, now that the boys have practically memorized The Berenstein Bears Go to the Doctor, I have to reassure them that they will not be getting a booster shot." (They didn't even know what a booster shot was until we read them that book.)
Needless to say, it took a full week for me to manage getting everything together to drop off the camp forms...by myself. I stopped at Kinkos first to make extra copies of the medical records just in case.
A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: The US Postal Service is more efficient at picking up items from a doctor's office than a mom with small children.Labels: Mom-Care, Outings and Playgroups |
It's wonderful when the kids get old enough to buckle and unbuckle themselves, that's for sure!