First of all, thank you to everyone who sent me mail at camp. It was the best week at camp I’d ever had, and I was sad to see it end. Speaking of ends, yesterday, I finished the supplemental book for the algebra lecture series. It is wonderful to be done!  Now, I can concentrate on getting things ready for the AP Language class–like syllabus, setting up my website, and picking a start date for the class. Just little things like that.

It’s raining buckets again today (thankfully, not in the literal sense).  It rained Wednesday, and all my pool towels got sopping wet as they were on the deck railing. Yesterday, it was sunny, and I let them dry all day, foolishly not checking the weather for today. Oh, well.

Since the weather is so lousy, I’m taking my crew to the $1 theater to see Night at the Museum 2.  After that, I’m heading to Sears to take up my cause with my horrible washing machine. I’ve had it 4 years. I’ve had nothing but problems with it, and now it rips up my clothes–shreds them or puts little holes in them–all the time. I’ve been complaining for 3 weeks that I want something to be done about it, and the woman at Sears said, “24 hours. I will get back to you.”  How many phone calls do I have to make?  I just don’t have the money to replace $40 a week of clothes this washer ruins! And I wonder to myself, “Why have I let this go on so long?”

What thing in your life has just gone on too long?

Please, please, pretty please? Send me mail? 

http://www.mycampk.com/contact/1-way-camper-emails
(Mary Sellers, cabin unknown)

You don’t even have to be creative. Forwards of forwards, jokes, riddles, things to read to my teenage girl campers, and more would be greatly appreciated.

If you’d like to pray for me, pray that God will use me and that I will grow closer to Him!

Thanks

On Sunday, I leave to be a counselor at Camp Kanesatake for a week working with teens. (Yes, I really want letters and emails. I shamelessly ask you for them! Click on the link http://www.mycampk.com/contact/1-way-camper-emails.  Send to Mary Sellers at Youth Quest 1 Cabin unknown)

Anyhow, as the theme is Days of Knights, I thought it would be fun to make a medieval costume. I’ve always wanted my own, and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to make one. 

Yes, it’s rather…um…voluminous.   (And I didn’t realize my eyes were shut in the picture below until I transferred it to my computer as my eyes are squinty when I smile anyhow. And by that time, it was raining AGAIN, so I just went with this shot.)

I’m not sure what the best feature of this outfit is. The little bellhop hat? The enormous not-even-in-the-90′s sleeves? The skirt so full it has prompted two of my children to say, “You really aren’t THAT fat”?  The notice from neighbors I got when I was trying it on and then went out to pick lettuce yesterday?