Megan has a job offer

Megan did really well on her job interview. She is going today as a trial run to see if she likes the job and would she be willing to do this. It would be working with younger children (5-6 years old). For the past 3 summers she has worked with this age group at camp. She feels very comfortable with them.

Megan was so excited that she had an interview and did well. It reminded me of the acceptance speech when she won the Oscar. They liked her, they really liked her.

It's the economy

Megan is determined to get a job. She has put in numerous applications all over town, but has not heard from anyone. It is hard to explain that people with bachelors and master degrees need to work at Target because they need to feed their families. The employment section in the newspaper has been very thin lately. Even in this economy she has managed to get an interview tomorrow. The local YMCA needs a climbing wall instructor. We will keep our fingers crossed and hope she gets it.

Five days of school completed, 175 more days to go

Both kids are getting used to waking up early. They haven't had to wake up this early since Memorial Day. Megan is appalled that she has Physics at 8:35 am. For the past 2 years she has had a P.E. class or another class that doesn't require much thought. As you can tell, she isn't a morning person.

Sean is now in the 8th grade. He had a pretty carefree summer and is getting used to being in a structured environment again. Most of his classes are close together, and he is very happy about that.

The first week has always been challenging. It takes us a while to get used to the new time table.

Megan's new 'do

Megan recently got her hair cut. She had enough to donate her cut hair to "Locks for Love." It looks great on her.

Hard to believe she is only 16. She probably had 10-12 inches cut off. It is a very different look for her.

She starts school on Monday and does not want any of her friends to know what her hair cut looks like. Too bad she published a post on Facebook that she cut her hair.

Megan the Daredevil

Megan has always been our very adventurous child. She started walking at 9 months and was running by 10 months. A few years ago she went to a ropes course. The people running it said that they had a few new elements and no one had tried them out yet. She was the first one to volunteer.

Recently, we were invited to go out on the lake for the day. Someone Chet works with has a power boat and 2 personal water craft (aka jet skis). It was getting close to dark and the jet skis are not allowed out after dark. Megan was asked if she wanted to drive one into the dock. She jumped at the chance. Unfortunately, she only has 2 speeds. She is either all out or stopped. Needless to say, she was all out. Everything was great, until she hit the wake doing about 40 mph's. She went one way, the jet ski went the other. Luckily, the key is tethered to the life jacket. When she fell off the jet ski just went in a circle. Unluckily, her head hit the water rather hard and now her sunglasses are at the bottom of the lake. I would like to say that she learned something, like to slow down. I am pretty sure she didn't and would do ita all over again if she had the chance. Now she has something to keep her sunglasses attached to her head.

There was this one time at Celiac camp...

Sean just got back from a week at sleep away camp for kids who are Celiacs. He had a great time. We were a little concerned when we dropped him off. He was about a head taller than most of the other campers. He was the oldest boy by about 2 years. He was even taller than one of his counselors.

He did like meeting kids just like him. One of the first things out of his mouth was how his new friend Mandy was just like him and the only Celiac in the family. He got to eat everything and not have to worry about reading the food labels. He went swimming, rock climbing, had a water gun fight.

He also got voted camp flirt. This was pretty surprising to me. He is the shy, quiet type. He told me he just has to talk during dinner and the boys in his cabin did not talk during meals. He hardly ever talks during our meals. Since the boys did not talk he went to the girls table and talked, laughed and ate with them.

The camp had at least twice as many girls as boy, if not three times the number of girls. The only kids who were close in age to him were girls. It still shocked me that they considered him a flirt.

We are happy that he met kids who are like him. Up until now, he never really met anyone who had Celiac or could not eat gluten. He was one of the few that had just been diagnosed with Celiac. Most of the other kids had been gluten free for years, not just six months.