And so began one of the most successful and fun adventures we, as grandparents, have ever done!

This was the 2nd year for Grandma’s Day Camp. The children had been asking for months when camp was going to start. They talked among themselves as to where we would be going and what we would be doing this year. I printed a colorful invitation on my printer and sent one to each of them one week before the event. This gave them a week of extra anticipation!

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Planning ahead of time enabled us to find "buy one, get one free" coupons at some of the places we went. Some of our activities cost money and we went out to eat several times.

With a little searching you can find many places to go that don’t cost money. Eating at home or packing lunches would save money. One of the lunches I asked one of our daughters to prepare. That certainly was a much better lunch than I would have packed!!

Several weeks after the camp I gave the children a simple evaluation form to fill out with questions like: I liked best ... I want to do again ... My favorite thing ... I did not like ... and let’s not do this again. Their answers were almost unanimous. Their favorite thing was going to a coal mine and newspaper and there was nothing they didn’t like.

Would we do it again? We already have ideas and a folder started for next year’s camp. June can’t get here too soon!!! See you at CAMP...

P.S.
For Christmas, each child got a photo album with all their pictures. Without exception, they sat and looked at each picture and the rest of the gifts were forgotten!!

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