Looking forward

The boys have been talking a lot about our upcoming pilgrimage to Camp DuNord. My favorite comment so far came from Theo yesterday musing about the 5 hour carride up to Burntside Lake. "Mom, what I like best about the carride is two things. One is getting out at Ely and eating at that one restaurant and the other is when we pull up down by the tents and we start unloading all of our stuff and we get to run around from tent to tent and remember everything from last year. But Mom, my most favorite thing is that moment when we are outside our house before we even leave and you guys are packing up the car and then we're ready to go and you get in the car and you shut the door. That is my most favorite moment ever. When you shut the door and we're finally ready to go!" I just love that something about his little radar out into the world has identified that moment as it- the big moment when you are finally ready and actually poised to move out, but you haven't gone anywhere yet and everything, every possibility, is still out there in front of you. Just waiting.