Anna had a reading challenge from my mom where she had to read 5 specific books in a period of time with a set due date. Upon her completion of the assignment she would receive a surprise. Anna has been working on the goal for weeks, but still had quite a bit of reading to do before this Thursday’s deadline. She ended up having to read about 100 pages on her last day. She called my mom and opened up a flower tin with a little note saying that she was going to camp! HORSE CAMP! She left this afternoon. Adam dropped her off, but I have been working on getting her all set these past few days. Prep for camp is one of my favorite childhood memories and I think it is a sweet thing to be able to use the things that you picked out with your mom on a special trip beforehand. We have been so busy this week that it wasn’t exactly the outing together that I would have envisioned, but we got it done and still had fun doing it—picking out a color combo of towels, her own toothpaste, sunscreen and so forth. I hope that right now she is finding the note I left for her in her bag and that she has a good night’s sleep and makes good friends. I hope that she is further rooted in her faith. She is getting to be such a big girl and she is a lovely one. I am going to miss her this week!
In other camping news, we hosted not one, but TWO campouts at our house this week. Adam had a group of high school boys here on Wednesday night and did all sorts of activities with them. On Friday we hosted some friends from our old neighborhood and triathlon girls that I love and rarely get to see. Tonight the boys are camping with Adam which makes A Whole Lot of Camping.
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