The Sunday After...

There was an unexpected side-effect of Family Camp. A sudden change that I hadn't considered and am still getting used to. I should have guessed this would happen but it just didn't cross my mind. We used to be anonymous. Its easy to do in a group of 1,000. We'd go to church on Sundays, smile at the person holding the door, say good morning to the people sitting around us, pick up the kids from their Sunday School classrooms and leave. The end.

Not now! Seven days at Village Creek jump-started our social circle at church and for the last two Sundays we've had actual conversations with people at church, we know them and they know us and we stop to chat. Well, God's got all kinds of blessings for us and silly me for thinking that the blessings of camp would end when camp ended. Thank you Lord for continuing to surprise us with your greatness, your love and care. You're helping us connect with like-minded families even when we don't expect it. Isn't he so AWESOME?

P.S. The other unexpected side-effect was the Camp Cold. Shelly caught it sometime during the week, I'm guessing Thursday. David had it from Sunday till Wednesday or Thursday. It finally caught up with me on the Friday after getting home. Archer's the only one to have avoided the Camp Cold. And I'm realizing through Facebook that MANY of the other campers had it too. I think we had so much fun we just wore ourselves out and there was no resistance for the little bug that spread quickly through the crowd. We were living and eating in such close quarters, getting too little sleep and the next thing you know we're all sick! Since we've been home for over a week now I'm hoping we've seen the last of the Camp Cold.