Around the world in a day?
Oye... Just woke up after dropping Gillian off at Celiac Camp. Place looks really neat. Big lake, lots of stuff to do, 139 campers.
Drove from Bridgewater NJ, dropped off Fae at our friends, drove to North Scituate, Rhode Island (which is NOT an island according to Gillian), then back to my parents house in Long Island. Going into work tomorrow and back to Bridgewater, leaving Aidan here for the week to hang out with my nieces and nephew.
The camp looks really neat, and Gillian had NO trouble saying goodbye. Got her in, made her bed, put her clothes away, and bing bang boom, we're outta there and she's jumping in to play go fish with her new friends. I marvel at the spirit of this little girl.
Anyway, here are some pics and movies I took yesterday dropping her off.
Excited about Camp from Matt Cushing on Vimeo.
Julie McCoy shows us around from Matt Cushing on Vimeo.
August 11th, 2008 - 20:01
Nice pictures, they came out well. Cute kids (must take after Mom), they look like they had fun.
August 12th, 2008 - 09:19
they do smart guy
My son is convinced that he should go to camp now
Can’t wait to drive back out there and get her on Friday!!
August 12th, 2008 - 23:41
Man, I am so jealous. I LOVED camp. I want to go back.
It took me a while to figure out, but it finally hit me yesterday. I was trying to figure out why I just couldn’t understand the way you and Fae were feeling about Gillian being away, or even why she hadn’t been before. And then I remembered – I grew up with divorced parents who lived more than 1000 miles away from one another. I was getting on planes and flying away from my mom before I was old enough to go to school, just so I could see my dad. Being away from home was the norm, not the exception.
Which is when I realized that part of why you guys have such a different perspective is something that makes your children very, very lucky and blessed.