Hello, Internet. It’s been a month since my last writing and WOW, what a month it’s been. There are moments when I begin to think life is about to be calm and relaxing for a few … then craziness ensues! It’s usually not bad craziness, most often it’s fun stuff and things I love doing, but it’s a marathon, none the less. I suppose I should be thankful that while others in this world never a get a break from the grind of work and home responsibilities, I get to fill my life with fun memories and good times.
I’m back now, from a week at the beach with family. My teenagers even made it down to make it all just above perfect. Unfortunately, they seemed to have inherited my busy life as they are both pretty busy nowadays, or maybe just everybody is busy. Difficult to say…. Anyhow, I had a absolutely great time and enjoyed the beach more than I have in a long time. It is clear that I need more of those good times in my life and I vow to make that happen, somehow or someway. Then I had to come back to work where, employment is a bit precarious but my team members and I are remaining optimistic and hoping that things work out for everyone.
Well thankfully, I had already scheduled a short camping trip (3 nights) with my middle son and the cub scouts. I had been excited about it and really couldn’t wait to go. The day of departure, life continued to challenge me with a leaky bathroom ceiling and car repairs. My wife, being the ever positive person she is, helped me through the crisis and we made it to camp on time and began our adventure.
Now there are several things in my life that continue to shape who I am and the life I lead; my marriage, my oldest son’s early trauma, my childhood, my mother, my teens , my short span of single fatherhood, and many more. Now, I have another experience that will hopefully impact me for many years; scout camping.
My middle son and I went camping in Maryland for a scout camp experience. There were definitely challenging moments (relatively open canvas tents, bugs, heat, rain and lake water in my hair) and I wouldn’t begin to say that I was excited and enthusiastic the whole time; however overall I had a great time. What impacted me the most, however was the last day. As I began to look back on the weekend and consider the experience from my son’s perspective, I will absolutely be sure to continue this camping experience for years to come. My only regret is that I did not discover this when my eldest teens were young. I hope to convince them to join me on future camp experiences. Certainly, I’ve learned a few tricks that should make the next trip less stressful and even more enjoyable.
So, I will spend the next few weeks reminiscing about this great and joyful memory I’ve created for my son and I and will look forward to future memories that each of us will experience. I will try to fight off the grind that is work and home maintenance and consider ways to focus my life more on family and less on work. Hopefully, my Jedi skills are sharp enough for the fight. For now, I’m about to begin week 2 of school and I’ll check in after a few weeks with some more excerpts from my notebook. Thanks for reading, cya soon.
Adam
Hello, Internet. It’s been a month since my last writing and WOW, what a month it’s been. There are moments when I begin to think life is about to be calm and relaxing for a few … then craziness ensues! It’s usually not bad craziness, most often it’s fun stuff and things I love doing, but it’s a marathon, none the less. I suppose I should be thankful that while others in this world never a get a break from the grind of work and home responsibilities, I get to fill my life with fun memories and good times.
I’m back now, from a week at the beach with family. My teenagers even made it down to make it all just above perfect. Unfortunately, they seemed to have inherited my busy life as they are both pretty busy nowadays, or maybe just everybody is busy. Difficult to say…. Anyhow, I had a absolutely great time and enjoyed the beach more than I have in a long time. It is clear that I need more of those good times in my life and I vow to make that happen, somehow or someway. Then I had to come back to work where, employment is a bit precarious but my team members and I are remaining optimistic and hoping that things work out for everyone.
Well thankfully, I had already scheduled a short camping trip (3 nights) with my middle son and the cub scouts. I had been excited about it and really couldn’t wait to go. The day of departure, life continued to challenge me with a leaky bathroom ceiling and car repairs. My wife, being the ever positive person she is, helped me through the crisis and we made it to camp on time and began our adventure.
Now there are several things in my life that continue to shape who I am and the life I lead; my marriage, my oldest son’s early trauma, my childhood, my mother, my teens , my short span of single fatherhood, and many more. Now, I have another experience that will hopefully impact me for many years; scout camping.
My middle son and I went camping in Maryland for a scout camp experience. There were definitely challenging moments (relatively open canvas tents, bugs, heat, rain and lake water in my hair) and I wouldn’t begin to say that I was excited and enthusiastic the whole time; however overall I had a great time. What impacted me the most, however was the last day. As I began to look back on the weekend and consider the experience from my son’s perspective, I will absolutely be sure to continue this camping experience for years to come. My only regret is that I did not discover this when my eldest teens were young. I hope to convince them to join me on future camp experiences. Certainly, I’ve learned a few tricks that should make the next trip less stressful and even more enjoyable.
So, I will spend the next few weeks reminiscing about this great and joyful memory I’ve created for my son and I and will look forward to future memories that each of us will experience. I will try to fight off the grind that is work and home maintenance and consider ways to focus my life more on family and less on work. Hopefully, my Jedi skills are sharp enough for the fight. For now, I’m about to begin week 2 of school and I’ll check in after a few weeks with some more excerpts from my notebook. Thanks for reading, cya soon.
Adam
Seems you caught the camping bug too. I remember the first time I took James to Cub Scout Reservation camp. We went to Henson Scout Reservation in near Lower DE. He did it all and as a 2nd grader “Had the best time of his life”. He cried when it was time to leave, he wanted to live there. Now, years later he still loves to camp. He enjoys the whole thing and at this point, he does it very well. I know that I have spent the most quality time with my son while camping, there’s no doubt about it. Today, I enjoy camping with the Girl Scouts, my family, and just me and Arial. We had a wonderful romantic weekend while camping and plan to do it again in August. Let us know if you ever want us to join you for a weekend or if you just want a review of all the DE state parks campgrounds. Other than scout reservations, state parks are really the way to go. Inexpensive, no big parties, well kept, and usually full of outdoor activities. Glad you enjoyed the trip.
Thanks, sister. I did enjoy myself and I’m thoroughly looking forward to the next scout camp. As for family camping, we are interested in that too. I’m going to want to purchase a bigger tent, but other than that we’re ready really.
Talk soon.
Adam
I remember Girl Scout camp. I must say that Girl scouts are much more um…er….dangerous than boy scouts. They can be a nasty lot when wet and miserable. It gets especially foul when the flash lights don’t work and screaming begins when hunting down the wolf spiders in the out houses. It also would never fail that half the campers would be on their period in hormonal overload and someone would always be camping and start having their FIRST period, causing a massive melt down, phone calls to home, emergency pick ups from flustered mom’s and others being sent home for brutally harassing said girl to the point of a nervous break down. Ah yes, memories.
The guys always had a better time.
My idea of camping these days includes a nice hotel room, hot shower, room service, blow dryer, swimming pool, nice restaurants…I will rough it and take the kids.
We are in a slightly different situation where we never get to leave the house due to our oldest child’s disability. Actually this past week our youngest got a great break from all of it. He spent the entire week at the beach with his grandparents doing all of those lovely beachy things being spoiled beyond belief and being delivered back to me tomorrow in what I am sure will be an completely intolerable condition, SBB. (Spoiled Beyond Belief)
Glad you had a great time and was able to avoid any undue trauma! I am afraid I have had a very poor attitude, or doing a great deal of venting as of late towards the medical and insurance establishments. It’s been an ongoing struggle for some time and if I don’t blow off some steam now and then…well we all know how unhealthy that can be.
Glad to see you back!