Today we're going to pick up the littlest one from her first week of overnight camp. I can't wait to hear about all her adventures! This camp came to be in typical QuirkyGirl fashion. Complete mishap.

When we moved into the city last summer, we had to basically start all over. We were at a new church, new neighborhood, new schools, new just about every thing. Previously, the kids had gone to camp with the church, but with moving and a new church I wasn't even sure where to send them at all. So I asked The Preacher's Wife. (Seeing as both of my besties are PKs I know this is not just the title but the official name of all spousal support in every church across the land.) TPW gave me the name of a camp they had just sent their kids too and raved and gushed about the joys and wonders of it all. She told me it was expensive so we might have to get scholarship info like they did. I was excited filing back the name of the camp until the following year.

Flash forward to the following year....

Sometime around March I start doing the research for camps and summer programs to keep at least the littlest one occupied. Pulling up the reserves from the back of my mind regarding the previous summer's camp convo with TPW, I set out on google. The name of the camp was Spring Mill...right? Sure enough Spring Mill Bible Camp in Mitchell, IN popped right up on the screen. I was confused regarding the scholarship remark for no other reason than it was a mere $100/week. Truthfully, I wrote it off because often times when people know you're a single parent they immediately assume their is financial hardship. Rightfully so 9 out of 10 times, but still....ya know? So I shrugged it off. Rejoiced in the affordability of it and proceeded to  look at the calendar.

Spring slipped into Summer. A week before Belle was set to go to camp Brandon and I had dinner with our marriage mentor couple who just happened to be the former youth ministers to The Preacher Man. As we were talking about the camp TPW recommended I said "Spring Mill" and Marty looked at mean and said "You mean Spring HILL".  "No. Spring MILL....in Southern Indiana." "Yeah, Spring HILL is in Southern Indiana." After a bit of the back and forth and a comment on the affordability of the camp it became apparent that I had mixed up the name and seeing as to how the camps are in the same region of Southern Indiana but the one is $400/week cheaper.....I registered my kids for an unknown camp. Because that's how we roll in this family. Flying along in a series of mishaps and misadventures. Yet, God has his hands on me (and my kiddos) with my haphazard ways because it almost always works out wonderfully. So this will go down as the summer the youngest was the guinea pig for summer camp.

We're hoping it was awesome and is a place to go back to over and over again. In fact, several people have asked to be in the loop about how it went as it's affordable and not so very far. Did I mention it's right next to Spring Mill State Park with a Pioneer Village and such? Cuz it is! I gotta hop off here and start packing up our stuff. We're camping tonight at Spring MILL State Park as a mini getaway with our motely crew. Maybe some pics later.

Kisses to Your Faces, Babies~

Rach