It is harder to keep up with this thing than I thought it would be!

Only 2 more weeks of summer vacation for Caitlin. She is all done with summer camp as of today and will be trying to entertain herself for the next two weeks. I took a couple of days off to hang with hr and I think Jeff will too. 

Next Wednesday is 6th grade Orientation ALREADY! Ahhhh! We have not done any shopping yet because I am wiating for the list so that I do not buy things we do not need. For clothing, she will need a new jacket and jeans, but should be ok other than that. I have found that the best sales are after "back to school" anyway. For 6th grade orientation they said bring a checkbook?? We have to pay an intramural fee for afterschool activities (she wants to do show choir and art club), order the yearbook, pay for pictures, and whatever other things they have! Whew.
She is so excited to finally find out which team she is in and what her other classes will be. They have 3 different teaching teams of 3 teachers who they stay with all year. The 3 teachers teach Math, Social studies and English. Then they have Science, gym and the elective they pick (Cait picked Tech Art).   

I have been busy trying to sort out the Girl Scout troop and have 8 committed so far. Plus, 4 maybes. That will be a great number to deal with, I am hoping we will be able to do a lot of great things on a small budget. I found out that the council wants $500 for camping in their lodges, which is crazy when I only have about 10 girls! So I am looking at other options. I have our first outing planned which Caitlin is really excited about....we are going to the Detroit Parade Company in Detroit to take a tour, do some fun activities and eat lunch. They are having the first ever Girl Scouts of Eastern Michigan float this year and the girls get to make a flower to go on the float. We might even have to go down to see it this year.

We have the possibility of a very dramatic fall coming up! Caitlin is trying out for Suessical the Musical at the Starlight Theater, which is the weekend of Nov 4th. She also wants to try out for Cheaper by the Dozen with the Huron Valley PADrama club, which would be the weekend of December 8th I think. Then she wants to audtion for The Little Mermaid through the same company for the Spring AND Charlotte's Web with the Huron Valley Children's Theatre which is also in the Spring. I said we will have to pick one of those I think. We are slowly getting away from the Starlight I think. The PADrama club also has theater workshops and she wants to do "how to pass an audition", so I am signing her up for that. Oh, and I am considering auditioning for Fiddle on the Roof which would be the weekend before Halloween.