Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

The house is quiet today. Too quiet. My thoughts keep drifting off to ScienceKid. What is he doing? How is he doing? Where is he, exactly?

I’m sure he is safe. No news is good news, right?

This is the first time he has been away from me, really away. Further away then he has ever been and I’m trying not to worry. Is he behaving? Is he helping out? Is he keeping himself under control?

I know I shouldn’t worry, but I’m a mom, so I do.

This past Friday AnnMarie spent the day here listening to the Classical HS Conference online with me. Sometime in the late afternoon we talked about how much ScienceKid had enjoyed being with her son, and vice-versa last Wednesday.

“We really should get them together next week.” I suggested.

“Oh, M*** will be going north to hike Mt Washington with his boy scout troop.” This is in New Hampshire, the highest peak in NE USA, and boasts some of the most severe weather anywhere in the world.

“Please don’t tell ScienceKid cause he will be so jealous. I should get him into BSA cause he would love to do that too.”

AnnMarie quickly made some phone calls and soon ScienceKid was signed up to go along. There were just a few more hurdles to cross. On Saturday we found a walk-in clinic that gave ScienceKid a physical so he would have the required medical permission slip, and by late Saturday he was at AnnMarie’s home, camping gear packed and ready to go. SK spent Sunday at AnnMarie’s Mormon Ward, attending service with them, hurdle #2, meeting the leaders and the other scouts, hurdle #3, — we aren’t Mormon —,… He left with the group for NH very early Monday morning. The plan is for them to set up camp near Mt Washington, hike Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, before returning home on Friday.

I hope he is having a blast. He so loves to hike and we have had quite a boring, uneventful summer.

I can’t wait to hear whether they really did hike to the top of Mt Washington and whether they hiked one of the other dozen mountains in the White Mts of New Hampshire.