My baby is home!!! I missed her so much!!! Words cannot express how happy I was to see her after she got off the bus. I had to hold back the tears. I think she grew a couple of inches while she was gone… must have been all that great camp food they serve! Sounds like she had lots of fun! Long hikes, star gazing, lots of snow, skit night, songs… good old camp fun. She said that her cabin leader looked just like me. I told her I cloned myself and went up to camp to watch over her. =} It is nice that we have Monday off so I have extra time to catch up with my baby. Plus she looks like she needs some time to recover, she’s beat! Here she is sporting some nature.

It has been a little on the quiet side around here this week with one less child in our house. Madie is up at Outdoor Science School near Big Bear with her school. I haven’t ever been away from her for this long and I have to say it was hard to let her go. There was a moment the day before she left where she wasn’t sure she wanted to go. She had been so excited and gung~ho up until that point, last minute jitters, I guess. I know it is an experience she needs to have to learn and grow. She is growing up and I have to let her, as hard as it is. I remember going to OSS and it was such a fun week. I hope she is having as much fun as I did. She will be home on Friday and I am counting down the hours until I get to pick her up. I sent three cameras with her so hopefully she is using them to document her week. I can’t wait to see what she has been up to. I have made it more than half way through the week already, just a couple more days now.