Only 4 more days until we move in to our new house! Sweeeet!
The kids started summer camp on Monday. Connor loved it immediately, but Aric was a bit more hesitant about the whole thing. They went to this camp last year and absolutely loved it. When we picked them up at the end of the day, they begged to stay longer. They wanted to get there earlier in the morning, as well. Connor is already asking that we get there as early as possible, but he hasn’t complained about being picked up yet. Aric had a much better day on day 2 than he did the first day. He barely said two words the whole night on Monday – I think he was shell-shocked. It takes him a while to get used to change. I feel for him and it breaks my heart to see him struggle with it. This camp is a nice, safe, wholesome, Christian camp, though and I think he will be more at ease every day. Sure, kids will still be kids and tease, etc., but I don’t think it is allowed to get to the levels that it gets to in school.
Speaking of school, I am so glad the kids are out of the district we were just in. The funny thing is, they were in the Abington school district – which is renowned in this area as being a really good district. I was so completely unimpressed. The principal we had for the past three years was a nightmare. There were a lot of racial problems in the school – which we got to call “diversity”. The unfortunate fact is that the area the school is in crosses an invisible boundary line where the poverty level visibly increases the further you go. And with poverty, comes behavioral problems.
The new schools seem to not have these problems from what I’m hearing from friends and co-workers who live there. I am really looking forward to a more wholesome school environment for both boys, but especially Aric. He bends much more easily to peer pressure, where Connor is absolutely fine being himself. It’s amazing how different they are! I have to admit that Aric takes after me in these respects and Connor takes after Rob. Although, I’ve change a lot in recent years to be more of the person who believes “To Thine Ownself Be True”, I spent a lot of years not living by that creed.