Sunday We Leave

On Sunday we leave for our first "real" family vacation. We will come back the following weekend.

I'm excited. It will be neat to be at a "Family Church Camp" for 7 days. It will be weird to not have my "normal" list to do though.... it will probably be relaxing??

I packed all of the kids clothes today into a tote, I was so proud that I got all of them stuffed into that big plastic box.

Now I have to do MY clothes, I dread that. Yuck, can't I just wear the same clothes everyday and wash them at night? I just am not a big clothes person, I like to look good in them, and I have a certain style, but part of my style is just easy-going-ness. Not a word? Who cares.

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My daughters went to a birthday party today. One of them called a few hours after it started and she was crying. I told her "Hi", she moaned through tears, "Mama, please let me come home." We went and got her right away.

I remember feeling like that, just wanting to run and go home. Not caring what the other kids thought about me, just wanting to be in that safe place of my mother's arms. I felt this way all through my school years, I have never been a big "Birthday party" kid.

She came home and she was so relieved. The other daughters stayed at the friend's house, which was fine by me. I was so proud of all of my girls, proud that the one trusted me enough to tell me that she needed to come home and proud that my other daughters made independent decisions to stay there (they both wanted to).

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I'm being random.

Back to my church camp mindset..... I'm excited to go, I'll miss my dogs like crazy and I hope that the fireworks noises don't cause them to freak out too much.

It will be good for us to all be together. Time just to reflect on God's glory and time to just hang out relaxing as a family. How wonderful. I'm much more excited than I let myself believe.

More later, and pictures too?

~B