Some creative moms turn their homes into camp — and say that the experience is worth every ounce of energy.
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When Rivka Lichtman of Yerushalayim had to work through her kids’ summer break she was flummoxed — what would that mean for her sons?
“Finding the right camps for our kids was getting so complicated. Then my husband shocked me by offering to do something with our older boys.”
Rivka remembers being incredulous. “ ‘Are you actually volunteering to spend a summer entertaining your own children?!’ I said. It was completely out of character — he was not the type to be so hands-on with the kids — but that summer opened up a new world.”
At first Rivka and her husband thought it would make sense for him to entertain their two oldest boys plus some friends while she found another arrangement for the little ones. “But eventually we decided to stick with just our own — all of them. I planned tons of activities some of them around my work and some he could carry out when I wasn’t around and so Camp Lichtman was born.”
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