Camp College

February 13, 2005 · Comments

The sale of this house is still going along nicely. A little back and forth, nothing that makes me worry that the deal will fall through. I’m hoping the contract is signed in the next week or so. ::fingers crossed::

Despite the accepted offer, my broker held an open house today. There’s no harm in trying for a backup offer in case this one falls through before contract, and these things are selling points more for the broker than my house. We like our broker, so we have no problem with that. Afterwards, our broker told me that in addition to regular folks, a few of our neighbors came by because they were thinking of remodeling and wanted to get ideas from what was done to our house. Can’t exactly take that to the bank, but we should be fine with the offer we already have. We escaped by heading to New Jersey to check out [Camp College](http://www.mccc.edu/community_youth_camp.shtml) at [Mercer County Community College](http://www.mccc.edu).

We got a brochure a few weeks ago. The girls loved what they saw. It’s a summer day camp, Monday-Thursday 8:30 am to 4 pm. The kids pick “classes” to take on the campus, in addition to recreation time. The [classes](http://www.mccc.edu/~procacck/4week%20course%20descript.html) are in the typical camp stuff like swimming, sports and art, but there’s also things like pet care, yoga, computers and needlework. The instructors are all elementary school teachers during the school year. We visited the campus open house today. I have to say without exception everyone we met was helpful and easy to talk to. We went on a tour, and we’ll be registering the girls for the 2nd session, 4 weeks, beginning July 18th. It’s cheaper than the camp we usually send them to here in Connecticut. If all goes well we’re closing here on June 20th and we hope to close on our new house shortly thereafter. So they should be more than ready to begin camp in mid-July. If for any reason something goes wrong and we can’t send them, then we only lose $75 per child. Worth the risk to register them now. We don’t want to miss out by waiting until we have a contract on a house there.

But this is a little strange…Emily is in that stage where reading “clicked.” She can read almost everything (mid 1st grade). She enjoys reading road signs, directions, instructions, you name it. I took her to the bathroom at the college and it had a condom dispenser on the wall. The building was the college student center. Not horrifying. But I admit I was surprised to see one in a non-residential college. Emily was washing her hands, looked up and saw the machine. At first, I didn’t realize what it was. I thought it was a feminine products thing. She started reading it, “Life-styles-ultra-lub…Mommy, what’s that word? What’s that for?” She’s 6.5 years old, and that’s a conversation I just didn’t want to have on any level. I changed the subject and quickly ushered her out the door. I’m not faulting the college for having the machine in the bathroom, I just have to figure out a way of answering her question honestly the next time it comes up without bringing up more questions that neither of us are ready to deal with.

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