This evening one of the boys and I walked down to the dining hall to look for suppers. Josh had gotten a text from one of the cooks saying she’d left us some chicken wraps and chips in the staff fridge. I have all this meat still from when I went grocery shopping and have yet to make a meal with any of it. Yesterday everyone ate with some family friends at the meet. The night before that I’d used chicken that we already had and was needing to be used.

I put the meat in the freezer so it wouldn’t go bad. Dad came home with other boys from the regular pickups and running a few other errands in town. He and I ate at the table and the boys ate in the living room. We caught up briefly before he had to leave for a school meeting. The high school is still trying to figure out what to do with their old and mostly un-usable land. As of now there still isn’t much direction as to how or where to build a new school.

Last night no one else had begun their paper sections either. For some reason I’m not all that worried about it. I worked on my sections for a decent portion of the day and got the title page and skeleton typed and sent to the other two in my group. I’ve kind of taken it upon myself to make sure this gets done and also gets done semi-decently. That’s at least the role I was playing today. I’m okay with my group and feel comfortable working with them.

Today I am still really missing my kids. My daughter stays busy and is often gone late for practice and sometimes later for youth group or doing something with Miles. She goes to his house which I’m fine with because I also know his mom. Of course I still miss my older son all the time but haven’t been crying every day since he left. It’s just this thing I’ve accepted that this is how it’s got to be and is another thing where slowly you will find the new normal.

I took this picture because I was trying to get a picture of the acorns. This is the time of year when they drop. It makes you watch your step more when walking on the camp roads because you don’t want to step on one and accidently roll your ankle. For some reason the air felt more humid today even though the humidity was only 48%. I wish we could’ve had more beach days this summer but every year is different. That’s just the way the seasons go.