Camping in one word QUIET. I looked forward to having a great time, go hiking, rent a bike, but all I did was be. Its hard for me to admit to myself let alone others that I get nervous when I am not doing something. I look back at my childhood and remember statements made by my parents "don't you have something to do" "get away from the tv, find something to do","if your just sitting there something is not being done". Its a little hard to look at those statements and not ask what were they thinking. Could my parents be responsible for one of my many hangups, one being idle hands lead to trouble? Anyway before I blab about old history Ill get back to camping. Quiet and serene are just two beautiful words to describe what I experienced on my personal retreat. Smokey and Nina Simone cried the entire 3 hour ride down (car was stuffed so they had little room), but the moment we hit the campground they relaxed. I got up the nerve to go camping solo, but would you believe I was still too inward to ask someone to take pics of the kids and I? I don't know how to explain it other than saying I did very little talking to anyone outside of the dogs and I was ok with it. This was the first time that I actually understood "you have to love yourself before you can expect anyone else to love you. Im learning, slow but I am learning
Hmm....bear with me here, I'm trying to work out some kinks in my blog's design, I want it to show my background picture, because I really like it, but I have to mess around with a bunch of annoying stuff so.....deal with it for a little while :-p
