Camp Grady Spruce

Last week Bailey and I took a four day trip to Camp Grady Spruce in Possum Kingdom. It's an outdoor education camp with lots of fun activities. Anytime I go out of town things get kinda' crazy and this week was no exception. I did my best to prepare Jeremy, Nadirah and Riley. I made all the arrangements for rides to school, drill team and soccer practices, plus the kids Wednesday night activities. I even made an organizational chart that I emailed to all who were helping and left individual notes and reminders for Jeremy, Nadirah and Riley. So at 8:30 on Tuesday morning I get a call wondering who was taking the kids to school...oops. I wasn't even out of the city of Keller and already the kids were late for school. Luckily that was our only chaotic moment and my friend was able to leave work, get the kids and take them to school. But onto our week ~ it was absolutely fabulous. Bailey and I hiked a mile and a half up to Johnson's Peak, learned about orienteering, shot a bow and arrow, rode horses, took a nature hike, climbed Devil's Island (we were like two feet from the edge of a cliff), ate S'mores, sang campfire songs and so much more!! One of the highlights for Bailey was seeing her teacher and principal get pushed into the lake. The camp tries to make the kids aware of how much food they're wasting while so many go without. At the end of every meal they weigh the amount of food waste and if the school as a whole can get less than 10oz. at two consecutive meals they get to push two teachers in the lake. Well, the school has been going on this trip every year for many years but no class has ever been able to make it until this year. The kids started off with over 7 pounds of waste but got it down to zero!! The kids and the camp counselors were super excited and unfortunately for the teachers the lake was super cold. One of my favorite nights was Thursday sitting by the camp fire singing songs with Bailey. It's moments like these that make me so thankful for the privilege of staying home and having the time to make these memories with my kids. The only down side to the trip was leaving my pillow at home which did not help make for a restful four nights sleep.