Pickerington

Long story short: LOMO designs day camp so that each counselor generally has 10 kids or less in their group. We brought 13 counselors with us to Pickerington. We had 177 kids registered throughout the course of the week. You do the math.

It was organized chaos - to be sure. But it was fun. My kids were crazy but I loved them. I taught them how to make friendship bracelets. And once again several of the kids kept saying, "This is too hard! I can't do it!" And once again, ten minutes later, they were saying, "This is so easy!"

We read the story of how God calls Samuel on Wednesdays. My kids wondered about the Ark of God. I explained that the ten commandments were held in the ark. They were fascinated, and many of them wanted to hear more about the ark. That was definitely exciting.

My host family was a busy family - also to be sure. Melanie and I, who stayed together, enjoyed evening walks around their allotment. Not gonna lie; we were both glad to get out of the house. That house was the single hottest house I've stayed at this summer.

I am glad the week is over.