Little Happy Campers.

Me and my big girls spent the weekend at Girl Scout camp. I went up with just Emily last year and now that Sarah is a Brownie, her troop was invited. We left after school on Friday, me, my girls, and three extra girls in the car. We stayed in a big camp that is used by organizations and, yes in cabins. Basic and bare bones little cabins but with heat. Emily stayed in one cabin with her troop and Sarah and I stayed in another with hers. In our cabin we had twelve six year-olds and five moms. All of the girls slept in bunk beds and only three fell out of the top bunk! I am serious, and they were uninjured, they actually bounce and their sleeping bags cushion the fall.

Because we had such a big group, we had the only cabin with a bathroom (which made me squeal with joy on the inside). If I keep going to this camp with my girls, I'm sure one day I will have the pleasure of taking girls to the bathroom in the middle of the night, in freezing cold and through the forest with only our flashlights to guide us.

The forest was beautiful, piney and cold. We started the first day with a 7:30a.m. flag ceremony, not too early really. Then the day was full of activities, nature, science and even a walk to the dam of Pinecrest lake (almost two miles round trip) for the Brownies. The older girls, including Emily's troop, walked all the way around the mountain lake. It was a three hour hike for the big girls and Emily was thrilled at the thought of it but it wore her out. I did the shorter walk with the little girls. Sarah was kind of clingy with me there. The little girls that didn't have mom with them behaved so much more independently. I like to think that Sarah would have been the same if I had not been along.

There was a "cook" for the camp but the troops served all the meals, each troop was assigned a duty. The six year-olds served a meal to 120 people and even cleaned the community bathroom once. Imagine those little girls squished up noses as we entered the BOYS bathroom to clean toilets and sinks and floors! After they got over it, they fought over the rubber gloves and the toilet brush! Hilarious!

So it was a busy weekend for us...and for Tony right? He is beginning to wonder if I will ever be spending another weekend at home. In a very friendly and smiley way, he mentioned that I don't go anywhere and then all of a sudden I am gone every weekend! I just told him "it's okay honey, a few more weekends and I will be ready to stay home for a while!"

Tonight, Emily and I are off again with the troop, this time to Stockton for a Disney on Ice show of High School Musical. Emily isn't really into HSM so much but an ice show is an ice show!