Tomorrow Mark and I leave for Sharp Top Cove, Young Life's summer camp in Jasper, Georgia, to spend another week with high school kids. This is our third summer taking the trip, and we've spent the week making runs to the Dollar Store to buy cheap costumes and candy, packing up our suitcases, calling kids to tell them to BE PUMPED, and going to bed early, as if I can stock pile energy.

It's been a while since I've posted, mostly because we have been running around so much this month and the only times when there is are a few moments to breathe (or write a blogpost) we are at home where there is no internet. Kind of annoying. Also a dang good excuse. There is this one podcast I kind of like produced by NPR, called Culturetopia. At the end of the one hour show, the hosts all do this little blurb called "What's Making You Happy This Week." There are three or four of them, and they each get to say one. Since there is only one of me, I'm going to say three things making me happy this week.

1. Remembering and soaking up the memory of the blissful relaxation that was our vacation to Punta Cana.





2. Seeing a bunch of friends in Harrisonburg last weekend for the celebration of the Purks wedding, especially THIS ONE:



3. My nephews, Jonathan and William, who came for July 4th...




Off to Georgia in the morning...