Through a Mom's Eye

What a beautiful day it has been up on lookout mountain! Let me introduce myself…I am Frances Lindsey, Camp Mom. I have the best job here at camp by getting to love on all your children. Tonight I will take you on a day at camp through a “mom’s eye”.

Each day we start off camp by gathering together at Morning Watch to sing songs and learn the theme of the day. As you all know the overall theme of the summer is FOLLOW. Every day a smaller theme is introduced to help the girls grow in their faith and how this can work in their everyday life. Today is compass. The basic idea is teaching the kids how to find their way toward Christ. You will be amazed at how much your child will learn and I encourage you to ask your daughter’s about this when they get home or even in a letter.

Morning Watch is followed by the traditional Flag Raising and then off to breakfast of eggs, bacon, biscuits and fruit. Delicious! (I can’t tell you how amazing it is to have 3 meals a day served to you and you didn’t have to plan the meal, cook the meal or clean up after the meal!) Your children are well fed and then ready to clean their cabin. It’s amazing to see them learn to make their bed, sweep, take out the trash and more. And they like doing it! It’s actually a competition to see who has the cleanest cabin.

Shortly after cabin cleanup the girls head to their club meetings, learn more songs and bond together with all ages. It’s really neat to see the older campers braiding the younger girl’s hair or leading the group in cheers. This is also a time to hunt for the Horseshoe that has been hidden around camp and worth several points for the club who finds it. First clue has been given-“It may be high, it may be low, it may be anywhere you go. But if I were you and looking all around I’d look mainly on the ground.”. Go ahead and send an email to your daughter telling her where to look:)

First class begins at 9 and they are off for a day full of activities most likely starting off in a long sleeved shirt and finishing in a short sleeve one. Perfect cool morning and warm afternoon. I had a chance to spend some time in Horseback, Ropes, Advanced Gymnastics, Cooking, Fun Swim and Riflery. What I witnessed that meant the most to me as a mom was the encouragement your children give to each other. It’s really cool to see one girl telling her friend “you can do it” as she jumps off the pamper pole and grabs the bar. Or when one girls shoots a little off target and a friend tells her “you’ll get it next time” with a smile and a hug. I really do see this all day long!

Tonight’s activity is two fold…First we got to see the minis do a dance they have been working so hard on all session. It’s quite a challenge to learn a new dance in such a short time and I’m very impressed with each one your precious girls. We will miss our minis so much and really do not want them to leave tomorrow! And second we had the Laney dance while the minis watched a movie. The older girls get very excited about this night and actually scream when the boys arrive. However there is just as much dancing with each other in big groups as there is dancing with boys. There will be plenty of pictures posted on this fun night. All your girls can certainly dance!!

We ended our day with camp fire and again with our theme “compass”. All the girls are getting sleepy and it’s a nice way to complete our day with Taps and then off to bed. I’m sure all the cabins will be quiet tonight as they dream about the blob they had the courage to bounce on and off of or the horse they trotted on for the first time. I hope your day has been as fun as mine and your steps as many (22,575) but I seriously doubt it!

Sweet Dreams!

Frances Lindsey

Camp Mom