I've never felt anything beyond fleeting guilt about Alexis being a full-time daycare baby. OMG I AM A TERRIBLE PARENT THAT POOR CHILD IS CLEARLY NOT LOVED WAAAAAH.
Sorry. It's true. I think the kid has generally been better off spending a few hours a day with someone who was getting paid to 100% pay attention to her as she socialized with other kids her age. If things hadn't played out that way, I can pretty much guarantee she'd still be spending her days hiding in the corner reading books and not talking to anyone.
Hrm. Silence. That might have an upside ...
ANYWAY.
I love hanging out with the kid, but she most definitely needs time around others who see the world differently than I do. And she knows it.
Every day since school let out I have heard the words, "Can I please go to summer camp?"
Sure, kid. We'll go ahead and spend $1000 per month for you to go hang out at summer camp while I don't have a job. SURE WE WILL. I guess we can just leave that pesky mortgage unpaid. I'm sure no one will mind!
Needless to say, we could be in the midst of the most miserable summer of Alexis' short life. She's stuck hanging out with me all day, every day. Oh, the sadness!
Instead of letting her sit around and whine about how she isn't at summer camp (which is really nothing more than daycare for school-aged kids, but don't tell her that because she'll end up there again eventually), I asked Alexis to make a list of the things she wants to do this summer. I told her to dream big because I want to make the most of this rare time we have together. We're going to party hard this summer, dammit, and she might as well enjoy it!
Her idea of "partying hard?" This.
In case you can't read Alexis-write, she wants to play hide-n-seek with me (Do I have to actually look for her? AHEM.), read books, go shopping, SLEEP IN, go to the park, play music, go outside, and go to 77 Kids.
BACK THAT TRUCK UP.
She wants to sleep in. SLEEP IN.
Alexis wants to sleep in.
So why the hell has she been up by 7:00 am every single day so far this summer?
It's a good thing she's so stinkin' adorable.
