It was a reasonably eventful weekend at Spy Headquarters, at least for us. Saturday, AJ played an unbelievable baseball game in which he hit got on base with every at bat, including one game-tying double. He was even better in the field, making an out at catcher and, most spectacularly, won the game for his team with an unassisted double play, the likes of which you don’t often see in baseball played by first and second graders. It was very exciting.
Saturday night, we traveled to another suburb to a college that is one of Mr. Spy’s major clients for their annual outdoor summer jazz concert. The college has a terrific jazz band and the singer this year was wonderful. We lay on the lawn eating our picnic and watching AJ run around with a pack of other kids that he’d never met before. It was a lovely evening.
Sunday we had a lazy Father’s Day morning and headed out in the afternoon to our town’s annual carnival. We hung around for a few hours eating Italian ice and watching AJ and his friends sprint from ride to ride. We arrive home again exhausted and crabby from the heat. We are delicate flowers when it becomes hot and humid up here. Even now, I am skulking around my basement office because it is cold and I can wear my wool clogs and a big cozy sweater and dream of autumn.
Today AJ started 5 straight weeks of camp. This week he’s doing a baseball camp in the mornings. Next week he’ll attend all-day Cub Scout camp — I’ll be volunteering there on Thursday. The week after that he does another all-day camp for sports. And after that he’s got two weeks of gifted camp in the morning.
The month of August all the craziness stops. We’ll be taking a trip to New Mexico, a state that none of us has ever been to before, in the middle of the month. I printed out a Junior Ranger workbook for Bandelier National Monument so AJ can get started on it. He’s very excited to see pueblos after studying them in school. We’re also hoping to make a stop at the Los Alamos museum. The rest of my family has been vacationing in New Mexico for years, but since they started it while I was in college, I never went. I’m glad to finally get the chance to see it, because let me tell you, the pictures are incredible. Last week my dad sent me a photo of a vivid double rainbow that he took from the back porch of their mountain-top house. I can’t wait to see the spot in person.
I was up late last night thinking about the trip. I’d forgotten how much the prospect of going someplace new excites me. It’s been a long time since I’ve been somewhere I’ve never been before. AJ and I are both ready for an adventure.
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