Screen Free

In the mass chaos surrounding putting the house on the market, we missed Screen Free Week.  It was the same week as putting our house up, so it would have been great to participate, especially since a local rec center gives free passes to those kids participating.  Oh, we would have loved to have gone to the pool every day!  Well, little miss decided we should do our own screen free week, and so that's what we just finished up.  Turned out to be a lot harder this year than in years past.  I've had some great ideas for camping, but haven't been able to fully research them.  I've been weighing stuff for the trip (what?  You ask?  Check it out here.) like crazy and just keeping track on index cards.  I ended up not being completely screen free.  June 1st was the first day of the library reading program, so we signed up online.  The kids tracked their reading online.  I did email another mom for a meetup.  By the last night of our week I had pretty much thrown it completely out the window.  Sigh.  But my kids followed it, and they did a great job.  We incorporated the Webelos requirement for Castaway--use as little energy as possible (not their own body energy, the other kind!).  The kids figured out that we don't need nearly as much electricity as we use.  I'm hoping they keep most of the lights off now that they've figured that out.  I, on the other hand, need light for my tasks.  Huge, honkin' flood lights.