Reality Me

• …because we survived the camping trip.
• …because I came home with only 2 seed ticks.
• …because I can hug my wife again.
• …because my baby coo’d and chattered and was happy to see me; and I held him.
• …because my puppy exuberantly welcomed us home.
• …because I was able to give a little to another child and mother.
• …because I was able to teach some boys how to whistle with an acorn.
• …because both my boys did things on their own that made me proud.
• …because my boys learned how to stomp a milk carton to make it explode with a deafening pop and I wasn’t the one that taught them!

Tommy joins the rest of camp for the lowering of the flag announcements and dinner

Boys opted out of chapel. Homebound.

Breakfast. Mmm

The boys have learned the stomping the milk carton trick. Expect phone calls from the school.

Another tired child says he slept only 3 hours.

Tired but very helpful child watches flag ceremony.

I was up at 2am and again at 4 and rose at 6:30. Night was calm and uneventful. Time to raise the boys.

Boys asleep. I am going to rest.

Tommy volunteered to distribute the marshmellows

Tommy listens to scouts tell stories while waiting for marshmellows

Noah with friends

Noah tommy jeremy and elizabeth prepare for entertainment

Story time.

Preparing for camp fires