Has anyone sent their kid(s) off to camp yet?

Our camp isn't until the first week of August. It will be our sixth year in a row at one Camp Quest or another. My big kid has aged out and he's working so he isn't going this year as a camper or a counselor. He wants to work as a counselor next summer, maybe even at multiple camps since they are all over the country and don't happen at the same time. My younger son is looking forward mostly to the waterslide and the rock climbing wall. It's such a fun time for them and it's a nice break for us.  

We sent off all 4 kids yesterday. My youngest is 8 and it's his first time. It was a somewhat sad 2 hour drive home but they were all so excited, so we're happy. DH and I have never been kid-free, other than a few hours, for the last 15 years (I homeschool them). The house feels really quiet now, but it's a peaceful feeling. :-)

My youngest went to band camp yesterday. It is only 4 nights, and the camp is at a university about 30 minutes from here, but I am always nervous for my campers just because I know how hard it can be socially. I did get a [less than expansive] text from her this AM letting me know which band she was placed in.

Mine is little enough that we are still just doing day camps, but she's at cheer camp all week this week and then for the first time ever she'll be at Camp Grandma for 4 days over the holiday weekend. I am staying here to take care of my parents and my DH is doing his first professional fireworks show as a technician!

I love having the kids around, so we have never done camp. But they haven't ever asked either! I don't think it's big in our area, I don't know any of their friends that go to camp. I do wish my teens had part time jobs though! They are expensive and it would be nice if they had their own money to spend.

My DS has a fishing camp in a couple of weeks that is 6 hours away and another that is more traditional the following week that is about 4 hours away. He has been going to these 2 camps for 4 years and next year will be a CIT. He loves camp.

DD is doing a mini-session at girl scout camp at the end of July. She's going to be doing horseback riding every day, and she's so excited

My daughter goes on Thursday to Rock Band camp in Chicago. She's spending a few days with grandma/aunts/uncles before and after and will be gone for three weeks. She has vocal camp later in August, but that's only a week

I did....but actually as the director of a special needs camp not as a camper! LOL....  So proud that she has worked her way from a counselor to the director.   Her brother will be attending in two weeks!

My daughter is on about the exact opposite as your son, (OP) Normally she goes to camp about an hour from us, if she was doing that she would have finished last Friday and then gone and spent the month of July with her Dad.

This year she wanted to go to a more focused camp. So she is in London with her Dad now, and will be with him until the 11th of July, she went on the 10th of June. She will fly to NYC on the 17th of July and my sister will take her to a voice/musical theatre camp in Princeton for two weeks.

This will be very different for her. She is going with a friend which I hope works out okay.> They are not besties, but they are in musical theatre together, so hopefully this will be a good fit for both of them. I am a bit nervous with her being on a college campus.. it will feel very different from her camp here in NC.

In the past my daughter has typically been at camp for the last three weeks in June, then home for less than 48 hours and then off for a month in Cayman with her Dad. (the year her Dad got married she was there for 6 weeks)

This year she is home for a week between her Dad and Camp. I am looking forward to that. I miss her a lot. She is missing home too. She is getting to the point where I think she would prefer to spend her time at home with friends instead of in Cayman with her Dad.

We have the opposite, longer summer break and less time during the school year (almost a week at Thanksgiving, 2 weeks at Christmas and a 3 day weekend here and there).  I love the long summer break as I love summer!   Our weather can be pretty cold and rainy in the fall and cold in the winter/spring, so I prefer to be off in the summer.  I have a friend in Florida and her kids schedule is similar to yours.  They have beautiful weather all  year, so it's like summer all the time.   I joke the we don't have a "spring" break because we don't have "spring". 

Mine leaves in 2.5 weeks.

I'm curious how old all your kids are. DS leaves in 2 weeks for a week at boy scout camp. He's 11 and this is his first week long camp experience. Fortunately, he'll be there with some of the other boys from his troop.

Mine goes in two weeks. Hers is only one hour away and this will be her fifth year at the same camp. There was nothing like that first time I dropped her off for a week at 9 years old, neither one of us knowing a soul there. But I think sleepaway camp is a great experience - for both of us!