It is with great pride and a week-long, camp induced euphoria, that this next post is written. Seven moms from church got together months ago to create an Orthodox VBS kind of camp for our kids. We wanted them to build Orthodox identity, to get to know the other kids better, and for us moms to bond and build community. And it worked! From the first day, all of our hopes were realized, and things just got better and better as the week went on. The kids got the theme, Tending the Garden of Your Heart. They had fun with the crafts and songs and games. They sat through our puppet shows! We worked hard and were all (kids and moms) exhausted, but so elated and blessed and thankful. It felt like a rebirth, a big flipping deal, a new frontier. Yayyyyyy!!
Monday at the Machnee's. Listening to our camp book, the basis of the theme: The Hidden Garden, A Story of the Heart, by Jane Meyer.
Adventurous hike!
Tuesday was at the Newberry's beautiful Bonny Doon property.
Lavender gorgeousness. The kids "got" how cool a beautiful, established garden is!
Practicing using her five senses, Annea sniffs the flowers.
Ladybugs!!
Annea in the flowers.
Annea went off on a hike with the big kids and Karla! As we were getting in the car, she asked Karla if she could come to her house again, without Mommy. :)
Wednesday at the Beck's:
Adessa (and Jayden!) developed their Limbo skills.
Craft time! The kids did great, up-cycling all kinds of stuff to make lovely flowers.
Getting ready for the puppet show!
Thursday started at the church, then ended at Uncle Ben's Farm.
Learning about the Fruits of the Spirit!
Picking berries at the farm, bearing good fruit.
Weeding Uncle Ben's farm: practice tending the garden, pulling the little weeds before they get too big, and using a friend (or two's) help to pull the big weeds.
Busy pulling weeds. The kids surprised us all and loved pulling weeds-- tugging them out, piling them up, seeing the difference their work made.
Eliana giving the weeds what-for!
Friday:
Playing the "Weed or Flower" game in their awesome camp shirts.
Friday finale face paint!
Camp Photo Op! All the kids wore their t-shirt for the picture, except Annea, who had to be convinced to even be in the picture. Oh well!
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7 comments:
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This makes my heart so happy.
Seriously dying for more pics!!!!
Still waiting :-)
any day now.......Auntie wants some cuteness! :-) Actually just rereading all the older posts has been fun too.
Well.... I had lunch with Keidi and the girls yesterday. We went to the wharf to have a picnic and when we arrived we found the sea lions. Basking in the sun and grunting....and then barfing...barfing up white stringy stuff.... and dry heaving...and barfing again. The girls were grossed out and we left. We were asked to stop talking about the barf as it was making the girls sick to just think about it. We ate lunch on west cliff and it was a lovely day.
I am officially updating you blog for you.
Tomorrow...tomorrow...i'll read you tomorrow, you're only a day away.... I will check back tomorrow and keep my fingers crossed... I am officially trying to cyber bully you into writing a new post :-)
One day.... one day.... one day... I am holding my breath
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