Camp

When I was a kid, I didn't go to camp. The only camping we did was at an FKK, or nudist, resort in Croatia. The weather was great until we all got sunburns. My oldest, Joachim, has begged us to send him to camp. One of his friends, who had cancer but is over it now, always went to a camp and loved it. Every year, Joachim would beg us to so send him, but the camp his friend went to wouldn't take him. Really, it's discriminatory for camps like that to not take healthy kids. Isn't the goal for all of them to be healthy? I got really mad at the woman who answered the phone when I called to see if Joachim could go. I called her camp a skin cancer factory and hung up.

This year, Joachim will finally get to go to camp. It's kind of a surprise since we haven't even told him he's going. It's an environmental camp where they kids help clean up a stream in West Virginia. He'll be out doors and there are supposed to be fun activities. On the day that he leaves, we're going to just drop him off at the pick up place in the morning.

Home Schooling

Have you ever considered homeschooling your kids? I have and decided against it. First of all, that's too much time with them. Second, they don't listen to me anyway, except when I yell or threaten to take away their tablets. Third, I just wasn't that good at school in all the subjects. I did well enough at my Gymnasium (the equivalent of a high school) to get into University. 

My oldest son, Joachim, is studying French and Chemistry. I don't know anything about either of them, except that I can order in French and I've never managed to blow up my kitchen. Also, I want my kids to grow up American, which is something I think I understand but am not always one hundred percent fluent in. If I had to teach them, or my husband, they'd grow up German. In that case, I might as well not have moved my family to America.