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Are You Ready for the Summer, #973
This is it. THE biggest week of my family’s whole year. For my children, this is the week that marks the end of their school year — the transition from when they are going into 4th & 2nd grades...
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Gone, Gone, Gone, #988
A photo of my daughter at camp last year Through kisses, hugs and tears, my daughter and I said our goodbyes as she gathered her courage and headed out the door for 3 weeks off to overnight summer...
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Camp Chants Cha-Cha-Cha
Happy Top 10 Tuesday everyone! Today’s blog is a repost from a year ago. My daughter just left for summer camp yesterday, and I am imagining her there this morning standing at the morning meeting...
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10 Ideas for the Perfect Camp Care Package, #990
When I was a kid, and I was at summer camp, I remember the excited feeling that would overcome me when I learned that a package had arrived for me from home. My parents were the best at sending mail,...
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Every Breath You Take, #994
My daughter’s cabin – a photo posted on the camp website last night. She’s in the front row on the right at the end with her arms wrapped around her friend. She looks happy, thank goodness! I am a...
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The Long and Winding Road, #1003
As we turned the corner at Leo Carrillo State Beach onto Mulholland Highway, my anticipation was building. This was a road I had traveled so many times before. I counted the mile markers knowing...
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She’s a Rainbow, #1017
“Ooh, Aah, Maccabia!” Those words will be echoing through my head over the next 3 days as campers show their spirit at my work. Maccabia is the Israeli version of the Olympic games, and at camp it is...
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All My Life’s a Circle, #1020
This is it. It’s the last week of camp, and it is so bittersweet to put an end to the summer. What has become my life for the last 2 months is about to abruptly end. I won’t see most of the staff...
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Incense and Peppermints, #1071
Tonight is the big Sukkot party at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, and this year, it is a 60’s party. So last night, I did something that I haven’t done in a gazillion years. I made a tie dye...
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Anticipation, #1132
This was such a fun weekend! It was “camp” weekend, and many camp directors from all over the country came for camp fairs to sell their resident camps. I love camp people so much. It’s always...
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