Hey, Football Enthusiasts!

The other day I talked about Pinterest—a cool, easy-to-use Web site that’s a lot of help for planning football parties. Everyone here at Everything Summer Camp is pretty into football so we know how much fun it is getting together with friends to watch the game and what you expect from your football party planning!

Of course, the televised games of the NFL may not be the most important football games in your family. For those of you who have high school or peewee games to watch from the bleachers—then this blog post is for you. I’m going to give you some of the best advice you can use for these games.

If you haven’t already met, allow me to introduce you to Crazy Creek Camp Chairs. These chairs haven’t just revolutionized the comfort of camping, they make any occasion comfortable—wherever you go. Incredibly portable and lightweight, these chairs let you have a seat no matter where you are!

Let’s face it—football games are fun to watch, but people don’t want to sit on cold, uncomfortable bleachers for two or more hours at a time! You don’t want to miss out on a football game that means so much to your kid but you also don’t want to suffer through an eternity of cold seats and sore keisters.

There’s a handful of different types of Crazy Creek chairs you can use to bring a little comfort to camp or sporting events. You can find them at Everything Summer Camp—the Original Crazy Creek Chair, the Hex 2.0, the Everywhere Camp Chair, and Crazy Creek’s latest creation, the Air Chair Plus (a camp chair and also camp mattress).

So say goodbye to cold, uncomfortable bleachers and sore bottoms this football season and enjoy the games without sacrificing comfort!

Hey, Bloggers!

Along with the leaves starting to change color and the beginning of football season, we also have the temperatures beginning to drop to look forward to. Just around the corner are cool mornings, and brisk evenings. It’s important to dress appropriately for your optimal comfort throughout the day.

You’ll find an impressive assortment of solid toned and neatly patterned fleece jackets for kids at Everything Summer Camp. Keep warm when there’s a chill in the air. Around noon the day may begin to warm up so the jacket is easy to lose if need be. Keep it around if you’re still planning on hanging out in the great outdoors for the evening.

Enjoy a campfire on a chilly autumn night or cheer on your home team at a high school football game in the sharp Techmatic or the cute Explorer’s Delight—both fleeces from Columbia. Boys love staying warm in Steens Mountain Fleeces from Columbia as well. They really keep the chill off you. And girls have the Benton Springs Fleece, offered both in solid color as well as a stylish print.

For other tastes, check out the Fast Trek Full-Zip Fleece, the cool Trail Patroller Hybrid Jacket, the Bug Shield Mesh Jacket, our youth Insect Blocker Mesh Hoodie, and the TechniKolor autumn jacket for girls—all from Columbia. These jackets are sure to keep you in comfort as well as cool and stylish color.

After seventy years of continually satisfying their customers and beating their competition, Columbia likes to think that they know what it takes to make exceptional outdoor gear. Stay comfortable in the cooler months with these great pieces of outerwear that you can find right here at Everything Summer Camp.

Till next time, Camp Fans!

Hey, Sports Fans!

Unfortunately, summer camp, as well as summer always has to come to an end. But as disappointing as that can be, look at the bright side—the end of summer marks the beginning of football season! When I was a kid I loved the weekly football parties we had at my house. There was excellent food with endless snacks, funny comments, and of course—football!

 It used to be a lot of work. We would call our guests to see what they were bringing so we could orchestrate some kind of theme. When I was a kid I also thought that my house was the only one that threw such fun football parties like that.

Turns out it’s a pretty popular thing for football fans to do. And since it’s such a popular thing to do, conveniences have been made in technology so that football party planning isn’t quite so much work. Nowadays a party like that is easy to collaborate. Just go online and find Pinterest.

Pinterest is a corkboard style Web site that lets you organize theme-based images. You can share photos, recipes, or anything else you might need to coordinate with your friends so your football parties are as fun as mine were when I was younger.

It’s a very easy, user-friendly Web site where you simply upload your images (as well as word documents or videos), save them, sort through them, and manage them. These images or other type of content that you upload becomes known as pins.

You then choose where you want to these pins to go. If it’s a recipe for a football party, then put it with the rest of your football party corkboard. If it’s instructions on how to juggle, pin it to your hobbies corkboard. It’s that easy to use!

We are taking a break from making footlockers (don’t worry we are still making them, just not quite as many this time of year) to jump on the Pinterest train here at Everything Summer Camp for this football season! Till next time, Blog Fans!

- John

Hey, Swim Fans!

Swimming isn’t quite the first thing that you think of when you think about school starting back up in the fall, but swim class is a pretty popular physical education course. Also, for those who love to swim simply for the sport of it, Everything Summer Camp has a wide selection of swimwear for boys and girls—both of excellent quality.

Shop Everything Summer Camp online and be prepared for swim class when your kid goes back to school. The pieces of swimwear that can be found at Everything Summer Camp are made using modern advancements in technology. They’re made to be more durable, sun resistant, and more fitting to your form. Put on these pieces for ultimate comfort, protection, and flexibility.

For boys, we have the Marina in Men’s, the Velocity Splice, and the men’s Wave Splice Volley Swim Trunks—all of them from Speedo. We also carry a short sleeve Swim Tee for boys from Speedo.

For girls we have the Speedo Racer Logo Splice, a single-piece swimsuit, the Speedo Love Burst three-piece Rashguard Set, including a two-piece swimsuit and then a matching rashguard, giving you more body coverage for greater sun protection, and the Speedo Girl’s Speedry Short—it uses VaporPLUS® technology to repel H2O in no time flat!

Everything Summer Camp also has a large selection of footwear for swimming that you can wear from the pool to the locker room. We have swim slippers from Speedo like the ZipWalker as well as the SurfWalker along with other water-resistant shoes from Teva and Northside Brille II.

This fancy footwear for boys and girls is made to give you the extra traction necessary for walking on a typically slippery floor like the walk from the pool to the locker is sure to be.

Till next time, Readers!

Hey, Parents!

Remember how ecstatic your kids were to get three whole months off from school? “No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks…” Remember? Well, the time for the other foot to drop is approaching quickly. Today’s blog post talks about ways that you can try and soften the fall of that foot so it makes less of a thud when it comes time to go back to school.

Helping your kid transition back into the scheduled days of school routine—getting to bed early, waking up on time, and doing homework—starts with understanding why going back to school is such a big deal to them. I think it’s in the back of every parents’ head, “Quit whining and get back to school!”

Subconsciously, I’m sure we think, “Most of us have to deal with work year-round! You just got three months off! Stop complaining about it!” But we only think that because we have it wrong. Our kids aren’t actually as lazy as they seem. It’s not school that they’re really complaining about—it’s the return to a day with schedules and structure. It’s hard for anyone to transition back.

Here’s a few tips on how to ease the pain:

First, you can help encourage your kid to continue with the hobbies they got into over the summer. Make use of camping supplies and camp trunks.

Two to three weeks in advance of the first day back to school, you can start setting earlier bedtimes and earlier wake times for your kid. You can try to start serving meals around the times that your kid will be eating when school gets here.

Lastly, but possibly most important, you should instill a casually confident air about your kid when it comes to going back to school. Be excited about it for them, but not too excited. Too much excitement can make them suspicious. You’re response to the coming school year will have a major impact on your kid’s.

That’s all for today, folks.

John