Ahhh...Summer

I love baseball and softball season but when it is all over, I'm not sad. This is the time of summer I have been waiting for. We finished up with baseball last weekend and Cali returned from camp. Aside from a few things here and there, we are free! I love that. My kids have been in the pool from noon until 5. They have had friends stay the night and stayed the night at friends with no limitations (as far as how much sleep they have to get).

It is summer!

Brian and I head back to counseling training on Monday. I enjoyed the break but I am anxious to see how some of my cases are doing. Similar to how people get hooked on reality TV, I am hooked on the lives of these people except these people are living and breathing right in front of me and they are pouring out their stories to the counselors unscripted. Each week their homework is to apply scripture to their life and the following week we get to see how doing that impacted their life. It's so good! It's so exciting to see lives improve and lives change!

This will be Brian's second week at Rock Point. He loves it. He is staying busy and loves going to work. This is his dream job for sure! Last week he got to go on a fishing excursion with the kids. Our church has had little camps rather than doing a week long Vacation Bible School. First we had a football camp, then the fishing camp, next is the dance/cheer camp and last is the baseball/softball camp. Anyway, he was like, "I get paid to do this?" He's like a kid again! But he is dealing with the serious side of things too. It's not all fun and games.

Cali had a great week at camp. She enjoyed the time she got to spend with Lilly, Gracie and Sydney. Her weather was perfect. She came home and seemed to have matured quite a bit spiritually. They talked about a lot of things at camp that really made her think and question, "am I doing things in a way that pleases God?"

Cameron is so glad that baseball is over. Once again, we seemed to have pushed him to that burn out point. He doesn't love baseball. He never has and he never will if we keep pushing him but this summer especially, he seemed to not enjoy it. I'm sure a lot of it had to do with the end of the season-getting hit in the neck....he was scared to death every time he got up to bat. So was I. But I bribed him with fireworks and he swung the bat, even started hitting the ball again but still didn't like baseball. We told him last year that he didn't have to play All-Stars (which is what he really doesn't like) and we talked him into it since Brian was asked to coach. But once again, we end up with a kid who is pretty good at baseball (or could be) but he h-a-t-e-s it and we ruin it for him by burning him out. When are we going to learn? I want him to play but I think the best thing to do would be to lay off for awhile. Brian agrees.

Then there's my little Chrissy. She is a little blonde fish! She loves to swim and she loves to do flips in the water...3 in a row without coming up for a breath even! She has come out of her shell quite nicely lately and just in time for kindergarten. She rarely cries or is clingy when I leave her somewhere. She has been going to her "big kid" class at church both in the morning and in the evening with no tears. That will make it so much easier on me when school starts. I even noticed at baseball and softball games this summer that if there were little kids playing, she would go up to them and just start playing. Cali and Cameron never would have done that!

So we are hoping the rest of the summer goes by slowly! I know we are going to enjoy it though...no matter what!