We just got back from signups for the community center's summer session.  I signed up both Zeke and Stazi for two sessions of swim lessons each, for a total of four weeks of swimming.  Stazi is also signed up for a week-long "Little Kickers" intro to soccer camp in August and a pirate-thematic one-day thing in July.  I signed Zeke up for a one-week "Dive into Literature" class where they read a different book every day, have thematic snacks and discussion, and apparently also go swimming.  I suspect he will love it.   Oh, and I am very excited about this one:  I signed Gus up for two weeks of "Mommy and Me" swimming.

The topic of how much to schedule kids' time is one of those hot-button parenting issues that tends to make people apopletic with rage and/or smugness (can you be apoplectic with smugness?  I think you can) on either side of the issue.  As is my wont these days, I sail blithely on past these rocky waters and do whatever the hell I damn well feel like doing.  My kids are signed up for kind of a lot of stuff this summer, but it keeps us busy and gets us out of the house, and I am no good at being a full-time stay-at-home mom.  I am much better at momming when I can get out and, like, do things.  Besides, my kids need to learn how to swim, and I think Stazi's pirate day is going to be a hoot.

In other news, I was at a yard sale yesterday and found a set of six plates with a multicolored striped pattern that are very close to a pattern I've had my eye on at the actual store for some time now.  There were also four matching blue bowls.  Price of what I wanted to buy at the store:  $90.00.  Price of what I bought at yard sale:  $7.00.  I am very pleased with this.

I also bought Zeke the Percy, James, and Diesel from the Thomas the Tank Engine train set, along with working windmill, for a total of $12.  Zeke is deliriously happy about this, and I feel like an awesome mom.  It was a good yard sale weekend.  (My primary love language is giving gifts to people, yes; why do you ask?)