Camp Day 3

A much cooler day today... we had planned for "Wet and Wild" theme day which was helped out by the little showers we had throughout the day......

 We have 50 children enrolled in our programme this week....aged between 5 and 13 years old....

The day is action packed with many activities.....craft, drama,games, sports,lots of music, specialised activities each day.....

Fraser is a "camper" ...Meg an assistant leader.....

We are using the "Camp Sonshine International" model and have some wonderfully skilled and passionate ambassadors from the USA here to help us run our very first "day camp " week....

We begin the day at 7.30am preparation time.....campers arrive at 8.30....leave at 4.30 pm and we have arrived home any where after 6pm each day.......

We have jumped, danced, slid, played, sung, run, ate and adventured all through each day.....

We have had many volunteers help make our first Camp Sonshine experience an awesome one.....

Today was what we called "hump Day"....all tired and a  little stretched out of  our comfort zones.....

But there is always tomorrow to go and have all the fun all over again.....  

Continue your thoughts...

A few weeks a go I shared the struggle of a brave young woman....

Yesterday she said goodbye

Please prayer for her family , strength , peace and comfort.

xxxx 

Camp Day 2

Another scorcher in our town today.....

The show went on anyways with a troop full of keen, eager and energised bunch of kids..... 

We finished the day by taking our American house guest to take in the sun setting on another action packed day.....

I haven't felt this tired in a long while......

A cooler day on the way tomorrow!

Camp Day 1

We are off an running.......

and we didn't stop........

off to get my beauty sleep in preparation for tomorrow. 

xxxx   

Sunday Snippets

This weekend......

A couple of weeks late but my littlest sister was able to celebrate her 40th with all family present and accounted for, along with a tribe of lovely loyal friends...

Joining in with Sunday Snippets and Weekly Stills

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Joining in with the 52 weeks project.

Things I am Loving

This week.......

Seeing a good movie for the little guy...

Spying fun street art while out and about....

Hanging with out of state family....  

Tiny signs of the first fruits on our Lemonade tree....

Enjoying the morning light and quiet that comes with it....

A bargain purchase to provide big entertainment...

Monkeying around time with a buddy cousin.....

Have a lovely weekend.

Joining in with Meghan here.   

 

 

My Creative Space

It's all about pirates around here.......

 Creating props and getting crafts ready for our week long holiday programme next week....

I enlisted the help of a creative friend to whip up this pirate boat today.

So excuse me if I am a little brief around these parts for the next week...I will be off having way too much fun with my pirate friends.

Check out other creative peeps here. 

A touch sentimental

We  gave away our swing set today....

It was Taylor's

We spent till the wee hours in the morning back in 1998 putting it together for her surprise Christmas present

She was  two and three quarters

I can still see the surprise on her face upon the discovery

That was 14 years ago....

The kids don't use it anymore so the nieces and nephews will

The funniest things make me sentimental....get out the photo albums...travel down memory lane....

and be thankful that before blogging I scrapbooked all the trivial goings on in our life at the time.....    

 Take 11 minutes and watch this....

Truly inspiring 

Having a passion about what it is we are meant to do
 
IS what makes the difference.....

Are you a gift to someone else?

My Reading list

 

Not since I was in primary school have I kept a reading log until this last year.

I recorded on my sidebar , all the completed books as I read them. I didn't have a goal in mind ..just to read..something I have loved to do forever.

I did manage to read 23 books in 2012.

Now it is a new year I wanted to keep the record of those books before I wiped the slate clean to begin a new year....maybe read 1 book more , maybe I will use my time well and read lots more....no pressure just the gentle nudge to keep reading.

So here was my read list....    

My 2012 Reading List

• The Kashmir Shawl
• The Colour of Tea
• Between The Lines
• The Piano Teacher
• Friendship Bread
• The Happiest Refugee
• Lone wolf
• Mirror Ball
• Not So Fast
• The Birth House
• Life Without Limits
• The Reckoning (The Heritage of Lancaster County #3)
• The Confession (The Heritage of Lancaster County #2)
• The Shunning (The Heritage of Lancaster County #1)
• Thunder Dog
• Heaven Is For Real
• Sun Stand Still
• One Thousand Gifts
• Courageous
• Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
• Leaving Home- Short Pieces
• Worse Things Happen At Sea
• Laura's Handmade Life 

Now to begin my 2013 list

  
I have just loaded my kindle with my second read today.....

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joining in with others here

Sunday Snippets

Snippets from our weekend....

 Lots of signs of summer time around here.....lots of things demanding our attention...even for so early in the year....

Happy weekend to you.

Joining in with other here.