Girls Camp

I'm back from girls camp. It was fun. I was gone long enough to miss my kids.

 That's always a plus.

 I really enjoyed being with the young girls and with the other leaders.

 The girls kept making me laugh. One conversation I found funny went like this.

 Funny girl 1

"Did you know you can't throw up if you don't have tonsils.

 My dad doesn't have tonsils and he can't throw up"

Funny girl 2

My mom had her tonsils removed and they grew back!"

Funny girl 3

"I just threw up and I don't have tonsils"

Funny girl 2

"I threw up 10 times and I do have tonsils"

 A lot of the girls got heat exhaustion or a stomach bug or homesick or both..... who knows, 

anyway there was some throwing up and passing out going on at girls camp this year. 

My daughter passed out in the first 2 hours.

 We set up tents in the heat and she didn't drink her water bottle with lunch.

 The girls were learning about first aid. 

They were being funny and acting out different scenarios.

 Emmaline pretended like she was choking and someone pretended to give her the Heimlich

. Then Em started to get woozy and she started tottering over off the picnic bench. 

Everyone thought she was acting. 

Cindy the young women's president saw Em's face and lips go white and was saying "I'm serious! I'm serious! Catch her!" 

 Thankfully Nate came up for the first day and caught her before she hit the asphalt.

Church on Sunday was extra pleasant.

 I think my twins are growing out of most of their naughty church behavior........can this really be happening? For the first half hour Gwenyth sat next to me with my arm around her.

 She was so still. 

Then she put her sweet head on my lap and let me play with her hair. 

Sarah just sat on Nate's lap

. The last half of the meeting they were wiggly and wanted to color and chew gum and talk to me.

 But that's no big deal. 

 Gwen had a list of things she kept asking me for or about. 

"Can we go see Maddie's new puppy after church?"

"Can we go to Build a Bear?"

 "When can I go to big kid school?"

 "I see something up your nose"

Me "What do you see?"

Gwen "Your smeller"

I had a hard time paying attention at church.

 My kids were so cute. 

I love looking at their faces. Plus I was feeling baby hungry. 

There are a lot of delicious babies and toddlers in my ward.

 Staring at them seems to feed my mother heart.

 Sometimes I wish there were more babies for me.................. but I don't feel anyone hovering.......waiting to come to our family.

 I think I'll always be baby hungry. 

I say this because when I had my first baby My Grandmother Helen held my Emmaline Helen and said. "I wish I could have another baby. I wish I could nurse her"  

My mother said the same thing. 

I don't think these feeling will ever go away and I hope they don't......they don't need to , this life isn't the only life to have children in.

It has been a busy summer so far.

  I feel a few songs rolling around in my head. 

If I ever get a quiet moment alone they'd have a chance to come out and get written.

 How did I ever find time to write the songs I have?  I was writing so many last year......

something pretty and green

mountain bluebells

yellow violets

I still have more I'd like to update here but I think that's good for today. 

Hope you enjoying your summer.......... or your winter....it's winter in Australia. 

Hey CJ, hope your having fun.