Parachute Away!!!

~*~Remember when you were in elementry school, picture it. Gym class, back when it was fun not work and sweaty like in Jr. High and High School but there was one day that you look forward too. Ok so some are thinking dodge ball, (I was only good at dodging balls just not throwing them back!) but I'm talking about the day everyone loved!!! Parachute day!!! Everyone could get involved, the teacher would bright out this HUGE multicolored parachute and if you were lucky you would get a handle, otherwise you held on to the side. Oh how cool, making it waves or making it fly up high and almost float down. Or try to keep the balls on the parachute as we bounced them around or run under it. Oh my the fun!!!

~*~So I haven't thought about this for YEARS!!! So when I came across something about parachutes I realized I JUST HAD to have one!!! I figured they would be expensive and way out of my price range but I started looking. After caculating the kids at my church and the size I would need plus what I could afford I found a very affordable one! I bided on one on ebay and I'm just HOPING I get it cause it used but it great condition and cheap!!!

~*~Now I'm bouncing around like a kid, telling everyone that I'm getting a parachute! Lots of the teens and adults were ssssoooo excited, except for a few. Poor homeschooled children that never got to experience the parachute day!!! Don't worry we will fix that!

~*~Hey and with all my research did you know that parachutes are actually good for you? Yeap that right, it teaches teamwork, cooperation, upper body strenght and of course it's lots of fun!!!

~*~A parachute kid forever~*~

Jac

Future Jr. Camp Woes!

*PS* This story is for those who every worked with kids, sunday school kids, Jr. Campers or kids in general. Only you will understand! For all those who haven't, will not understand why you do have to have this conversation with kids sometimes! So don't read it if you will get offended! LOL Don't say that I didn't warn ya! It's really not bad, but SOMEONE will get offended I'm sure with a "That gross don't post that!" Comment!

So excited about Junior Camp this year that I was in seventh heaven! Lots of campers going, some needing the Holy Ghost and several of my Sunday School Kids (SSK) are going and so on!!! Nine total campers, 2 staff (including myself) 4 off campus, equaling 15 total!!! Woohoo!!! With 4 that need the Holy Ghost!!!

BUT... Then the realization of how by the end of the week after your head is swirling with questions like "For Reals?!?!?!" come crashing in already and camp hasn't even started!!!

I was telling the SSK what they needed to bring to camp, talking to them about what kind of clothes, stuff they need to bring, (like towels, shampoo etc.) but when I mentioned they need Five pairs of underwear at least.
One of my SSK looked at me in shock and said, "We have to bring FIVE pairs of underwear??? Why?!?!?"
"Cause you have to take a shower every day and change your underwear!" I responded kinda shocked.
"Why can't I put on my old pair? I do that all the time!!" She was very upset!
"Cause they are dirty!!!"
"Ssssoooo...."
~Sigh~ but then responded firmly, "As your future counselor, my campers will not smell during the week so you will have to take a shower, brush your teeth, and change your underwear EVERYDAY!!!"
"How do I brush my teeth everyday if I don't have a toothbrush?" said one of the younger girls.

~Sigh~ It going to be a long week at camp, but I'm still excited!!! I think I will have to sing them my silly song, it a Jr. Camp tradition for my campers so it should teach a lesson. My old campers know what song I'm talking about!!! LOL

Only Me,
Jac

My Dream!

They say if you can't sum up your dreams and goals in one or two sentences then you are not certain of your dream! So here my dream...

"I may not amount to much but if I can influence a child that will one day become a modern day Peter or Paul. Then I accomplished my greatest dream!" ~Jac~

What is that smell?

It was Sunday afternoon when I sat down for lunch at a local café; I was eating alone and choose a seat near the front so I can watch the people as they ordered their food.

When my food arrived, I started to smell the most awful smell; it seriously smelled like an old man who just smoked a pack of cigarettes in one sitting.

I slightly gagged and slyly looked around for the old man, no one was near me and the only people that were 10 ft away was a young decent looking couple, a mother with her small daughter and the little employee cleaning the display windows.

“That’s odd.” I thought, but as I started eating again, “Wow, where is that guy!”

I decided it had to be someone sitting at the tables.

So I acted like I need more napkins, getting up and walking too closely to the table of two guys my age smelling as I go.

They did smell but not like old men that smoked to much, in fact they smelled pretty good.

I couldn’t figure out for the life of me, where the smell was coming from.

But as I went to take another bite, the smell overwhelmed me and at the same moment, my eye caught the menu, “Smoked Chicken Wrap.”

Yeap you guessed it, my meal which was really good, smelled like an old man who smoked too much!!!

LOL,

Jac