Decamping

Well, the girls are feeling better. Gib was entertaining Taryn until about 1 a.m. and texting me until nearly the same time. I know I didn't make it until 1 a.m. though because last I remembered I texted Gib "Nite". When I woke up I had a text from Taryn asking me to tell Gib to leave her alone so she could sleep. Sorry Taryn! You were about 2 minutes too late in your request!

Volleyball Camp is officially kaput. I told Mariah we wouldn't even try to go to the last day today. I can't see her running and hustling for 4 hours. I've called to put Mariah in the next one that will be held in July instead. I hope they will just transfer her enrollment and I won't have to pay again, or let me pay for 1 day since that is all we attended of this one, which is 4 days long.

Poor Mariah, the bad news just kept coming. Turned out her much anticipated overnight volleyball camp has also been cancelled. Last year she went to it, but didn't stay in the dorm rooms, we drove her there each day. Some huge political rally is being held there instead. Gotta say I don't think much of a college that has planned something in advance, taken your money and then says, oh we think this political party needs to have a rally and they are more important than these 100 girls so taataa darlings. Mariah was crushed. It was her overnight camp!!! Girl party! Dorm Rooms! Up all night! Talking! Giggling! Eating! Oh, and of course...the Volleyball! The opportunity that has been lost just can never be reclaimed. You are only 12 once you know.

I also had to move Mariah's Red Cross Babysitter Boot Camp from next week to end of July because she needs to get her braces off on 6/23. Mariah wants to be a babysitter so bad she can taste it! If only she lived close to that rich supply of cousins out West. Out here, getting Red Cross Babysitter Certified is a golden ticket that mom's look for before hiring a young babysitter. It is a two day course, 9 to 4:30 both days and teaches some of the tricks of the babysitting trade, including safety, first aid, choking and CPR. (I think Taryn should take it again. She texted me the other day when she was babysitting wanting to know if I would come do the "dirty work" for her. I told her she would have to do it, and explained how - Mariah was giggling in the front seat of the car the entire conversation. Then I mentioned to Taryn that maybe she better wait a REAL long time before ever having kids.) Either that, or live REAL close to Mariah, who will never let HER Red Cross Babysitter Badge get that rusty!!

A couple days later, I was thinking about the Ortho thing, and asked Gib if, when he made his last ortho appointment, did he finally make the braces off appointment the dr had been postponing all summer or another tweaking appointment? He didn't know, so I called and it was another check up. Which frustrated me, because back in April, we had decided to take his braces off before July. So I told them I wanted to pre-book the braces off appointment right then for something no later than July 1st because he leaves for Florida, and will only be home once for a couple days in mid-July and then again for a couple days the last week of July. And I wasn't going to wait until August when we had agreed in April that these braces were coming off before July!

It took a conversation with the Dr, but finally after ALOT of searching, we found two appointments in the two tiny windows Gib is home in July. I am not thrilled that they are booked so solidly that you need 6 weeks to find an appt, but I am happy to know that we will soon be done with braces, and that we won't have two ortho appointments we have to work our school schedules around. When Gib gets back from the lake it's just one week before school starts for us. Whoa.