.Longing for Home.

With only a week to go in our camping season, I am really longing for home. I want my privacy, my santity, my "normal" family, my bed, my kitchen, my food, etc., etc. I can really feel every bit of the four months that we have resided in two teeny, tiny cramped rooms. I've had about all I can take. I am emotional, I am exhausted, I am way over having to discipline and train up my children in front of oodles of people day in and day out. I am beyond ready to have Jim's help with bedtime, bathtime, play time, discipline, etc. (Not that he does not help at all during the summer, but this is how I feel at the moment.)I'm just plain tired, but I know that His grace has not changed. His grace is still sufficient, even for this, and I tentatively pick myself up from moping like my three year old, perverbally pop my thumb in my mouth and cling to the security blanket of His grace. I can't do this one more day, except for His mercy and grace.

And onto something a little more upbeat. Here are a few shots that I pulled to show you of my Cadi swimming. She is a little fish, and has picked up on the basics of swimming really well this summer.


She even learned to dive this summer!





PS If someone could teach me how to size photos for blogger, that would be great!

Food, Inc.

I am usually not into political "things". But while eating my Stonyfield Farm organic yogurt today (my yummy addiction), I read an ad for the movie Food, Inc.. This past year I started researching healthier eating for my family. It has become a huge passion of mine. I think that what we put into our bodies is so very important. And I have come to believe that the closer that food, and other things really, are to natural, the better. I struggle with this part of living at camp for five plus months, maybe the most. I have very little control over the foods my family eats while here. And no one else here shares my passion or desire to live and eat naturally. Our camp kitchen is full of foods laden with chemicals, preservatives, dyes, additives, artificial sweeteners, etc. And I am fully aware and understand that some of it is a necessity for camp ministry. We could not possibly budget an entire summers meal plan for hundreds of campers and staffers organically and naturally. *Pooey* So I do what I can while here. Lots of yogurt and lots of grace! {wink} But as the summer is slowly starting to fade, I have an itch to put my familys eating back in my own hands! I still have much to learn, and I am so excited to see this movie! Anyone else with me??