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After reading Nicole’s post about the Emmy’s, I suddenly remembered something I thought yesterday. During Mass at Puff Up, the priest mentioned something about prayers for peace, and that they were “especially important in times of war like this.” I remember thinking that we weren’t at war yet. Imagine my surprise when my Mom called this afternoon and towards the end of our conversation she said, “you know that we have started bombing, don’t you?” The question came out of nowhere, and no … I had no idea. I hadn’t turned on the TV since we had arrived home, and we listened to CDs on the way home from Cub World.

My thoughts & prayers go out to everyone who has loved ones serving in the military and to the members of the military themselves. It brings back a flood of emotions that are still vivid after Desert Storm. My prayers go out especially to my ex-husband, Rick, his new wife and the baby they are expecting early next year. He is stationed at Ft. Bragg, and I am sure he has been deployed already or he will be very soon. Much love to all, and I hope everyone returns home safely…

We made it up to Conroe by 9am Saturday morning for Puff-Up, and while it was overcast it never rained on us. Yeah! It had rained Friday night up there, so some of the people who had camped then were a little damp still. 🙂 It was a little muddy in spots, but not too bad. Our theme for this year was “The Beatitudes” and they did a pretty good job with it. We ended the day with Mass, which is always so neat to do outdoors. I just like how it feels. By then the clouds had moved out and we had blue skies and puffy pretty clouds. After Mass we went back to camp, set up the tent, ate dinner with one of the other Dens – nothing as tasty as hot dogs & hamburgers cooked outside with a big group! We have been doing things with scouts since Jason was in 1st grade (he is in 4th now) so it’s almost like getting together with family every week. That may sound strange, but really it isn’t. We had enough people for 2 campsites, but instead of being spread out across the road from each other we squished into one site. We had an inner circle and outer circle of tents. Nice & cozy. After dinner we did banana boats – where you hollow out part of a banana and stuff it with marshmallows, chocolate chips, apples, nuts, and other stuff, then wrap it up with tin foil and put it over the coals. The boys loved making those and S’mores. This was the first year that there wasn’t a burn ban – so we got to have a camp fire! At dark we had we retired the colors (our Cub Master, had built a flag pole set up for us that was really cool) After that we went for a night time hike out to the open fields – we got to see constellations, satellites, the space station, and Mars. Then we went back to the campfire, told ghost stories, the boys did skits, and we visited. 10pm, lights out – but I don’t know that I slept too much. I felt pretty well rested though this morning, so I guess I got some. We had everything packed & loaded by 9:30am or so, but stayed until 11:30 so we could just enjoy the gorgeous weather today! All in all we had a great time!

Off to go camping! It’s cold & wet outside. This should be fun! Ok, well – it will be fun, but if the sun doesn’t come out later and dry things up a bit we may just come home tonight! Otherwise, we’ll be back late tomorrow morning. (Yeah, short trip. If it hadn’t rained yesterday we would have gone for both nights.)

Have you been to ad libitum lately? Just checking.