Sunday, June 12, 2011

Heading Off to Summer Camp

In about 10 minutes, Brock & I will drive Preston & Shaling to Camp CILCA (near Cantrall, Illinois -- about 30 minutes away) and drop them off for an entire week. They will have fun canoeing, swimming, playing games, hiking, singing songs that praise God, etc.

Shaling has been excited about her "No Mom, No Dad" week. For the last week or so, she's been counting down the days, even expressing her displeasure that she has to come home this Friday.

At lunch today, she wrote these words, "I'm Love MoM and Dad and Preston, shaling. happy. I'm sad shaling." Based on what she was telling me verbally as she wrote it, her intended message is that she loves us (and Preston); she is happy about going to camp; and she is sad because she'll miss Mom & Dad.

She also drew a map of camp, even though she hasn't been there. It has our house...a long drive, then a girls' cabin, a boys' cabin, & a lunch building. The only words she needed help spelling throughout drawing the entire note & map, were "girl" and "boy". Of course, her capitalization and grammar aren't perfect, but I find what she CAN do correctly pretty darn amazing.

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