It was just a moment. And I caught it. Elliot (the 'touch me with only your eyes" child), leaned into Chris while we all listened to Andy lead music at chapel this morning. Honestly, I could listen to this guy for hours (and I have lol), but I told Elliot this morning "I met your dad and Andy at the same minute over 22 years ago" ... so today, this was a very cool minute and I was happy to catch it!
Isaac is a bit of a floater this week for family camp ...he is scheduled for some pots and some boat spotting, but then he floats and makes himself useful. Scott had a talk with these 3 younger LTP's who are staying with the Jr Summer Staff this week and has warned them they will have NO warnings, that they are to stay busy and look for ways to contribute to the running of camp. If they don't stay busy, it is easy to get into trouble .... so Isaac has been asking various people if they need help.
He likes helping in the tuck store because he gets paid in tuck (eye roll) .... but he also helped with the front gardens with Raena in the morning and cut back all the lavender and geraniums and took all the clippings to the back 40 to dump. And in the evening, he helped the lifeguards take care of the 7 and 8 year olds while their parents went to chapel ..... so it was a good first day.
He saw me sitting across the field, talking to my dad on the phone, so he wandered over to say hi.
That night, Elliot is very not interested in going with all the other 13 year olds for fun times while their parents are in chapel ... so I had him 'babysit' at Leanne's trailer to listen for Tommy in case he woke up. He will do this every night this week.
And we got Charlene back ... except this year she is our nurse!! So, she was upgraded from being a camper ;-) Except now, since Isaac is staff and not living with me, she is the one chasing him down to get the pills into him. I wonder if he will ever remember them?
Isaac, while working on the front gardens, cut up a little scope bottle and made me a vase with some little flowers ....
This morning, Nikki and I met (grudgingly) at 7:30am. She is one of my oldest friends too ... Andy snagged her, and Chris snagged me ... so we have had similar walks with these 2 original Qwanoes boys .... its gearing up to be a really fun week with old friends. So, we ran 3km up to the research station .....
And then cooled off here .... jumping in, holding hands and screaming .... it was fun.
We have aged .... but its nice to be back together .... for even just these moments. This woman has a family of 3 beautiful kids already but has also taken on foster care with Andy by storm ... so they are the picture of busy and we won't really see eachother much during the day this week, but we have made a pact to grudgingly exercise in the am this week.
