As I mentioned in my last blog, my oldest daughter is in theater camp this week in Rhode Island where we are on vacation. The camp is hugely popular and hard to get into, so my younger daughter did not get in this year — much to her major disappointment.

To make it easier on Lilly, I’ve been trying to come up with fun things for her and Adam to do in the evenings during theater camp. We’ve gone out for ice cream, they’ve gone to Bingo at the Yacht Club (where they both won) and they had a private surfing lesson from the life guards. The lesson was such a hit, it definitely took the edge off of missing theater camp.

Meanwhile, my older daughter has taken notice of all the activities going on while she’s at camp. When she heard about the surf lesson, her eyes got big and she had to swallow the words I knew so wanted to pop out of her mouth: “Why do they get surfing lessons?”

When she heard that Pop Pop had treated to ice cream, she wanted to know why she had to pay for her own ice cream when she went with her friends.

“It’s not fair,” she said. But when asked if she would have rather missed theater camp to take surfing lessons or be treated to ice cream — everything settled back into perspective.

She is loving theater camp. She’s made tons of friends and is excited for Friday’s final production.

But she’d rather have her cake and eat it too. Wouldn’t we all?