Since my last entry. Just been busy with life I guess. Dropped off my oldest at camp today. This is her first extended amount of time away from home. I am confident it is a great camp and she will have a wonderful time -BUT -I am missing her terribly. I am an introvert and I love having my time at home -but even more I love having my family at home with me. Having her gone is very hard for me. It is all part of parenting though I guess -it is almost worse than having colicky babies -I didn't think anything would top that- live and learn I guess... Even more heartbreaking is my 7 year old already talking about how she will be going to camp as well next year! ARGH!
We still have not managed to get Will out of diapers yet and time is closing in on me. He is to start preschool this fall and they request that the children be trained. I am at my wits end. This child has no Achilles heal. He does not like candy and bribery with a new vehicle placed before him just does not work. I hate to force the deal after our experience with forcing Kenny. She ended up constipated for 2 weeks and we gave her an enema and the stubborn little girl held that enema in for 5 hours! We then gave her Miralax daily and told her she had to poop in a pull up and clean herself afterwards. It worked -but it took her umm I think 6 months before she gave up the pull-up. Ack!
Addie was a breeze to train -not sure why -she is definitely not my easiest child -but I love her anyways:)
So... We are allowed to email Kenny at camp -but it is a 1.00 an email. It comes out of her camp account. I already emailed her when we got home and I am sooo wishing I could email her again -but I don't want to put her in camp bankruptcy. We are not allowed phone calls either. How do parents do this? Send off their children to camp and live to tell about it? I have 2 other kids here at home and yet I still have time to pine away for my oldest baby girl. I have started a new book and am trying to watch TV but nothing can keep my mind off my first time camper. Clearly I am getting a taste of what 'empty nest syndrome' is all about!
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