"I just got those butterflies in my stomach cause I'm filled with so much excitement I could scream and cry and laugh all at the same time."

We were together. I forget the rest.  -Walt Whitman

 

Top 10 Favorite Traditions:

1. Queso, bible study and top 10 lists with Alex, Katy and Rachel on Wednesdays

2. Stockings then breakfast than tree presents on Christmas morning

3. CILT reunions (dance party, Whitetail sleepover, love tanks, newlywed game, theme dinner, giant devotion and being more excited than any other day of the year)

4. Reading "Puppies" to girls on the last night of Tecumseh or YL camp

5. The rock devotion week 1 and "Touch someone who" after closing campfire

6. SIBs at Hope (NME, chapel together, the Phelps table with the Emmys, trads, coffee dates, Kletz lunch Thursday, prayers and praises in the basement)

7. Old Chick Flick Sundays with Emel, Colleen and Molly

8. Christmas Quilt Camp with Mom, the Hot Chocolate Club and a different friend every year

9. Thanksgiving in MI and a midnight trip to J. Crew with Katie

10. Weekends at camp with Smooncat of writing PLs, eating our favorite foods, sleeping in and just being best friends

 

Highs- MY CAMERA CAME BACK TODAY, weekly fiesta with Alex, Katy and Rachel, SO many fun things are happening tomorrow I can't even begin to tell you, starting a new book

 

The new Tecumseh Tales, a quarterly newsletter from Camp Tecumseh, is out. Mike Lang has done an incredible job with this issue and I urge you to check it out. Even if you're not connected to Camp Tecumseh, the article titled Vagabond about my friend Ricky is one you've just got to read.