Well, the Music Camp that Katrina was attending at our church is over with, but she had such a great time & she learned a lot, too.  We enjoyed watching her perform in the musical finale put on by all the kids, “The Slingshot Heard ‘Round the World”.  It was a story about David & Goliath.  It taught the kids how they can face giants in their own lives, through prayer.  Not only did Kat learn a lot of songs that week, but she also brought home some wonderful Biblical knowledge.  The day of the performance, I was telling her how proud I was that she had done such a good job practicing & I was encouraging her not to be nervous that evening.  She promptly told me, “Mom, I know you’re proud of me, but you should be glad for God, because this is a show about Him & it’s all for His glory”.  I told her I was & that I was happy she knew that, while holding back tears of joy.  We’re so grateful not only that Katrina had a wonderful experience, learning & playing in music camp this year, but that she brought back some truly great life lessons that we hope will remain with her for years to come!

Katrina has been excited for all the activities that she’s gotten to do this summer!  The most recent one she’s begun is music camp each day this week at our church.  It is for all elementary school aged children.  She is having a blast, so far!  They are going to do a musical production this Friday evening, for the finale.  So, she received a special learning CD, to practice the songs she’s learning, at home.  She loves doing this & will put on her Spongebob CD player (with headset) & “jam out” – singing the parts she knows & just dancing in place to the ones she hasn’t quite learned yet.  It’s cool that she was interested in going, this year, because when we offered to let her attend last summer, she just said, “nah”.  And, it’s even more of a joy, seeing that she is having such a great time, so far!  We can’t wait to attend the performance at the end of the week!

Katrina keeps having a “best day ever” it seems, at least once a week this summer.  But recently, we went on a short day-trip & she told us that it was her favorite day of the summer.  She had been asking us to go to a science center, like ones that we’ve been to when we go out of town.  Our own locale has a small science center that we’ve never actually been to, because we’ve only heard of its meagerness & failure in comparison to other ones.  But, only a short hour and a half drive away, there’s one that’s worth going to & spending all day at.  So yesterday, we left around 10 a.m., got to our destination city around lunchtime & ate at McDonald’s – something Kat loves to do, anyway.  The, we proceeded to go to the science center.  We literally spent all day there & didn’t even get to see *everything*, but it was still a ton of fun.  They had remodeled & added some cool new features for the kids, since Jeremy & I had been there last.  Katrina especially liked playing & enjoying all the interactivity.  We left as they were about to close & proceeded to find somewhere to eat for dinner.  We wound up at an all-you-can-eat buffet, which had lots of Kat’s favorite foods.  She just thought that was the best ending to an already “perfect” day.  The entire trip home, we kept re-living the day’s events, through her wonderful tales of her favorite summer day.