Here we are, a month into Avery's first official summer break. She spent the first two weeks staying up late and sleeping in even later followed by tv time and playing outside with her neighborhood friends. Yes, I made her do a bit of "school work" each day, it wasn't 100% work-free.
From there we headed out on our first cruise for 2024, a 9 nighter out of Baltimore The weather wasn't pristine, but we still had a great time. She loved the kids club and made a friend there. She also killed it on the rock wall, conquering two of the six paths available. I don't know how she had the energy but she was running every step of the way in Cococay looping around on the free water slides.
Now that we're back home she is spending this week at Camp Splash, a swim camp at our local public pool. Here too she made a friend, and my advice to repeat the person's name seemed to help her remember another new friend's name!
Next week we have some activities planned for the 4th and subsequent weeks will take her back to Camp Splash and two Vacation Bible Schools. She does have a "gap" the few weeks before school starts back up. At this point I plan to revert to the chill strategy we had as the summer started.