Christmas and New Year all over now; the main focus for Dad has been heading toward running camp, and everything else has had to fit around that. Dad is aiming to alter his priorities next year to make things run more smoothly for family life.
Here is Huff helping out at Mum’s work with some camp-related things. A tiny t-shirt for a tiny helper at the camp’s leadership program.
Huff also went to help Dad in the office. It was a long day, even with the prospect of pizza for late lunch.
After the day was over, though, with the prospect of gelato, she was much happier.
The feedback was “work was was fine for one day, but I wouldn’t want to do it every day”.
Camp was similarly busy. With both kids at camp as campers, Dad and Mum didn’t see much of them, but there were a few moments of togetherness.
Late in the week, Puff came down with what the Queenslanders would call the “spicy cough” and so had to head home, so camp finished early for all but Dad.
And then after camp, Huff came back into the office with Dad to help take some things back into storage.
Finally it was time for some rest, and Dad and Huff took Pippin out for a walk, and to see what it was like to be on sand, and even (briefly) in the water.
We also had Christmas Day, lunch with the family, but there wasn’t much of a photographic record as we were trying to spend time together.