Camping and computers

There is a very good reason why my little corner of cyberspace has been quiet. We headed out last Thursday up to the mountains where there is no phones, appointments, Internet, or anything else man made, but only the beauty and quietness of God’s creation. It was a wonderful and timely get away. Before we left we dropped both, yes I did say both , of our computers off with our computer guy to work on why we were gone.

We got one of our computers back today so here I am trying to peck out my thoughts on our little vacation before I forget.

Our trip started out rather interesting and had the makings of going South real quick. The week before we left I had 5 children go thru a day of the stomach flu. I thought everyone was fine because no one else had gotten it for three days before we left. Well, I was wrong. About 3 am the first night Shylie threw up. Let me just tell you how horrible a tent can smell when someone throws up in it! Ugh! Thankfully I had brought our Complete Virus with us so I gave her 5 doses immediately. She threw up once more then fell back to sleep and was fine in the morning.

Once again I thought we were safe, but a few hours into the next morning Shelbie started not feeling well. I started her on some doses of Complete Virus right away. She started feeling better and decided to eat some lunch. Bad idea! Within a few minutes she wasn’t feeling well and got sick. We did another round of Complete Virus and she slept in the tent for a couple of hours then woke up feeling better. I am so glad we packed the CV in our first aid kit! We ended up using it on my sister too when they came up and her stomach didn’t feel quite “right”.

Saturday my best friend and her sweet family came up to spend the day with us and Micah and Lynette also came up and they stayed the night with us. It was great to have all my favorite people with us!

We spent most of Saturday just hanging out at the Lake. Mike and De Anna rented two paddle boats so the kids had a great time paddling around the lake. My kids get along really well, but they loved having their cousins there with them! We had a great time hanging out later in the night around the campfire. Shyloh brought up about 150 glo sticks for the kids. They made bracelets, necklaces, hats, and a couple of them figured how to tape them to there bodies to make silhouettes. That night we hung a bunch in our tent and it looked like Christmas!

Our weekend was wonderful. Lots of relaxing, swimming, fishing, snake hunting (um, I wasn’t involved in this!), and hanging out around the campfire. Shelbie and I even snuck in some quiet time to listen to another fabulous sermon from Paul Washer!

We came home Sunday afternoon and quickly unpacked and jumped in the pool to cool off. Thank goodness for take n bake pizza’s so I didn’t have to come up with dinner ideas. Before I went to bed that night I had already conquered 7 loads of laundry! We all slept really well that night!

I must say I really loved going all week with no computer. I realized how much it sucks up my time for more important things. When you have free time and no computer it is amazing what you can come up with to do.

The rest of our week has consisted of swimming, a wee bit of school planning, (I’m going to kick that up a notch next week!), a little bit of school shopping, (did you check out Staples deals this week?? And Dollar Tree didn't disappoint again with some fun things!), and enjoying my garden। I really am amazed at how quick the summer is going। I still have so much to get done before school starts and so many fun things I want to do with the kids.