"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

Monday, June 13, 2011

Goodbye Forever

Today E was drawing a sidewalk picture when GQ "messed it up."  She began yelling at him, and I tried to point out that he was really only trying to help.

Said E to GQ:  G, I know you were trying to help.... but really, you just.... kind of.... sort of..... messed it all up..... you know?

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In other news, I am running away to Girl's Camp this week.  I just have to figure out how to talk to teenagers, and I should be good.  (Unfortunately, I didn't really know how to do that when I was a teenager, we'll see how it goes.)

Until next week....

4 comments:

Heather - said...

You will do great! When I was called into YW back in January, I was VERY nervous. I felt the same way as you - I didn't know how to converse with your average teenager when I WAS one, what was I supposed to do now?
Even though I still feel awkward sometimes, I love it, and I'll be sad when I don't get to be with them anymore.

Annie said...

AH! I'm in charge of girls camp this year! I have no idea what I'm doing! I'm all sorts of worried that the girls won't like me/the camp/me. I feel like a teenager all over again, aren't I supposed to be the "mature" leader?

Fowler family said...

Oh Jamie- how did it go? We had girls camp this week too. You are such a trooper- to go up the whole week! I only did a day. It really was cool though.

Claire said...

How did it go?