What can I say, My girls are summer camp crazy! Luckily there are several disability camps within a three hour radius of our house. In fact there are five that I know of.
We first sent Regan to camp at age 10....to one that was about 45 minutes from us, because I was terrified of her being on her own for a week, and well just unsure about how the whole disability camp thing worked. Well every year since that first week she has added one camp a year. So this year we are up to four camps....possibly five if we can figure out a way to get into the beach camp she would really like to go to.
Now to be honest we are very lucky. The main three camps she has attended are all free to us. Lions Camp, and Texas Elks camp are sponsored by those fraternal organizations and each child is fully funded and sponsored by a local club. In fact John Mark is a member of both of those organizations just to help raise money for the both camps. Camp Smiles is a cerebral palsy only week at camp and is sponsored completely by UCP (United Cerebral Palsy) and they raise the money for those kids for that week.
The two she would like to add both would cost us a bit of money, but in reality with all we save it would not be that big a deal, it just depends on what our budget looks like when the applications come out and are due. Anyway....it is weird to think about planning our June and July weeks for Regan right now as the temperatures have dropped and I have just traded my shorts for a warm up suit. I will be posting more about disability camps for my readers who are interested to let you know what to look for and our experiences as the months progress.
7 comments:
Wow...talk about planning ahead. But it sounds like she has an awesome summer planned!
Disability camps!? That is fantastic.
Makes me wonder what is available around us. Our little guy is too young for camp (I haven't even left him for more than a couple of hours with family) but it is something to look forward to!
I can hardly even manage to plan for my oldest daughter's birthday in February so you are much more organized than I am.
I left you another (I know, but it's a good one) over at My Mommy Said!
Camps are so fun! Left an award for you, by the way. I see you already have one of the same lol but I love your blog, so I left you another anyway. :)
So Not Domestic
Oh how we would love to send our Big Guy to a camp for a week or so during the summer--but we are terrified. I know some of it is just over protectiveness--but if things don't go well, things could turn out really bad. Aaaiiii! I will be interested in reading about all the summer camp stuff for Regan.
I've been to two of the camps you mentioned, and I'm pretty sure I know one of the others. I really encourage parents to explore summer camps - think I'll post on that soon - hope Feb won't be too late!
Barbara
Hey great blog here. Keep us posted on the summer camp suggestions and we'll share them on our myspace.
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