I will happily admit that the hour-a-day play activity did not always include me. One of the beautiful things about being in Vermont is that the kids have something they simply don't have here: freedom. Independence. In Vermont they were able to disappear outside, into the woods, up into the tree house for hours on end without a grown-up in sight. I wouldn't take that away from them for anything. For one month a year they get to experience what I did as a kid: complete freedom from the grown-up world (the one that is there to monitor and protect -- the one that spoils the fun).
However, I did make a conscious effort to play some games I haven't played in a long, long time though. And here are the pictures to prove it.
(This photo was actually take at our old neighbors' house in MD on our way to VT.)
Blocks. I helped build this. I particularly love the Etch-a-Sketch screen and the man trapped in the glass (Jenga) box.
The view from the Ferris wheel...a ride I haven't gone on in twenty years or more.
Chutes and Ladders and a zillion games of Chinese checkers. That's the summer in a nutshell.
Until next year.
