Looking for a Job Camp Hosting in all the right places

Turn downs, “no openings”, “we have all of the help we can use“, “keep us in mind for next year”...

and other nice ways of letting us know we didn‘t get the job abounded this week. We did get two more job offers, but not in the Orlando area. We really do want to stay close to our son and his cute, cute wife and girls and to our nephew, Craig, and his wife, Tanya. They are expecting their first baby, and we just have to be a part of that. Besides, they all have Disney passes and I, like all of the world, want to go to Disney.

The two offers were intriguing: One in a Florida Preserve , helping in the visitor center, and the other in the Everglades, working in a lab studying marsh lichens . But the jobs were not only too far from family but involved too many scheduled hours, which would kill exploratory trips. Florida truly is Adventureland. And I’m done with 100% of my time being tied up with work.  We need time to play with little mermaids and baby tigers.

Visitors WELCOME....!!




A regular visitor to our Camp Host Site

 

Here's a young Mom Moose, who brought her baby by our camper window regularly.  Maybe because it was her first calf, she let campers get close.  (Never a good idea!)

A surprise benefit of our job was family can visit and even camp (free).  So our fashionable newest grandbaby even joined us.  Wonderful!  On one visit she forgot her bottle, so I found a new glove (from when I taught chemistry) for the nipple and Grandpa (known as Paka by the grandkids) donated an empty Coke bottle.  The contraption worked!  Ah.....this is roughing it.

How do you "Balance" Family-Work-Play?

This cool tent that Grandpa found amazed us. We'd never seen one. You can see it by using the Amazon link. Type in key words: Truck Tents for Camping.

Our eldest daughter was about to have a baby girl, and I was determined to be there with her. There were complications. We were the only ones at our campground. How could we leave the camp unattended? And then there's the matter of one baby boy whom I couldn't bear to be separated from. We were best friends. A more than wise person told us, you are wasting your time trying to find the perfect balance. He had a scripture to back his words up: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all things shall be added according to that which is just." No worries, just prayers and following The Lord to get those priorities right. You can see by the pictures mom and baby were fine, and I got to be there to take all of the pictures and make movies.... and my little toddling friend came to visit often. Hurray! http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=c0886-20