The days are better, the nights are still so long
Sometimes I think I’m the only cab on the road
~Cab, sung by Train~

Today was the CILCA homecoming which is what camp does to mark the end of the summer. It’s always disappointing that more people don’t come but even with who was here it was still good. It was a decent and expected turnout based on how things have gone in the past. I was talking to one of the moms for a while and while we were doing so she said out of nowhere, “Oh my gosh your teeth are so white. What do you use?”

I’m pretty sure no one has ever said that to me before and I really don’t think they’re as white as she was making them out to be. I was like, “Uhhh, just the Crest whitening strips but it’s been a few years”. She was asking about school(!) and internship and asked if I’ve worked with people who were ghetto. I told her I didn’t think I had. There’re people who are entitled and think you owe them and others who are very thankful.

She’s a social worker who works for the state. Social workers have more opportunities and make more money than counselors, I have no idea why. It can really depress me and rile me up when I hear how state workers make all this money for hardly doing any work. I’m not talking about her, just in general. And then you’ve got people like these hardworking DCE’s who do all these things and basically make pennies in comparison.

I’ve told more people about the homeschool, including my mother-in-law and the principal where the boys were going to school. It’s crazy to me how some people just completely get your life choices and you can talk about homeschooling like it’s the most normal thing in the world. And then there are others who just don’t seem to think it’s as cool or exciting. Trinity was very good to us and if we needed to we would call again.

We took the camp staff out for supper. They hang out for the weekend and still have closing chores to do but it’s become a tradition that we do this with them. Sometimes it makes me wish we had more friends to hang out with, like how did we start out in life with having so many friends?? Like one said, “Camp and college life, it’s not real”. It’s real but there are other parts of life that are real too and you will find your own way.