I have a friend who named her daughter Imogen. At first I didn't like it but it grew on me. Now I think it's a lovely name. No way to shorten it or do a nickname though.

I had been thinking that I hadn't been awarding enough special Carol Burnett special gold sparkly stars, when I saw your comment. Here you go, because I can only give you one star and you deserve many more:

I get not wanting to do it yourself. I don't get not making the kid do it. If they're old for sleep away camp, they're old enough to pack for it.

You're right. I was part of the anticipation.

I am trying hard to instill such self-sufficiency in my daughter. She does do all of her own packing when we go on trips, and has done for a several years now (she's 10). I don't even check her bags to see if she's got it all. I think she's better at packing than me.

I was definitely raised to be independent, which was a good thing.

This year for the first time I signed my 10 year old up for a month of day camp because I'll be working part time (I'm usually off in the summer). A science teacher is doing 5-6 kids for science camp out of her home. But, yeah, I didn't want her watching TV all day when I was at work and she's too young to get a job.

They may be talking about camp for a whole summer—8 to 10 weeks. That's how you'd get up to $10,000.

I think today that would be really unusual. Where I went we had cabins with beds, but we did do overnights on the river bank. Sleeping bags on the ground. In that part of the Ozarks, the river banks are nothing but rocks. Really. No one even mentioned it or complained. And yes, we had to shit in the woods.

I was just going to post that many non-rich people also prefer to outsource their kids in the summer. I have a friend who is a stay-at-home mom, and she sends her kid to day camp in the summer because he's too annoying. My daughter's not that annoying (yet) that I have to pay someone to take her off my hands. I…

I packed myself up for camp at the age of 9 or 10 and every year thereafter (can't quite remember just how old I was when I first went to sleepaway camp). That includes having to do the iron-on labels on everything. There was a list. My parents gave me a big old duffel bag. I put everything on the list in the…

I'm sure you have a lovely program but I'm not sure I'd call it "camp." It's not camp if it has air conditioning. We sweated our asses off in the Ozarks.

I had a very Catholic friend who thought like this too. She had had an abortion before she got married and it was a girl. She went on to have 6 boys. She really wanted a girl and thought God was punishing her for the abortion by not giving her a girl. I just think it's very sad when people carry guilt like that…

I'm with you on the polyester sheets (ick), but what's wrong with Ivory bar soap? I love the smell of Ivory.

It makes perfect sense. She can control the weather and make it colder or make it snow. She creates a small climate zone around him where it will always be cold and snowy. Don't add logic and actual laws of nature to Disney movies!

Hmmm....best sidekicks? Yeah, Olaf wins. I also like the cat and the hamster from Bolt.

Yes, but I'm not listening to it for the singing. I'm listening to it for the bad words. Because I have the emotional maturity of a 10 year old.

We play the soundtrack in the car (I know) and that "happy snowman" part is my favorite. My daughter completes the expected rhyme with "puddle." That song is perfection.

But it's cute. He thinks summer is magical and wonderful but doesn't know it could melt him. What saves it is the end part where Kristoff says "Should we tell him?" and Anna says "Don't you dare!" Also when Elsa gives him his own personal flurry so he will never melt, even in summer.

There are youtube makeup tutorials on how to do Sophia Loren's eyes that do this style. It was her signature style.