Camping and stuff

During the summer break Andrea and I take our kids for some one-on-one time with mom or dad. The girls spent time with mom and the guy (Jakeb) spends time with me. There are really two goals for this time. One is to build a stronger relationship with our kids by having fun. The other is to talk about relationships (guy/girl relationships). For those of you at Brazos Pointe, this is where we teach our kids about muffins among other things like dating, marriage, how simple guys are and how complex girls are etc. For the years when they are 11, 12, and 13 we use a resource called Passport to Purity.

Jakeb and I went camping at Guadalupe River State Park for the last three days. What we talked about is confidential but the fun we had is not. We spent most of our time in the water. We found a tree that had a huge muscadine grape vine wrapped around it about 15 feet over the water. The water was deep and we climbed and jumped from that tree at least fifty times over the course of a couple of days. We floated on the river sans tubes and played in the rapids. We grabbed rocks under the rapids and let the water rush over our heads. On the last day after we finished camping we ate lunch in Gruene at the Grist Mill and then spent the rest of the afternoon swimming in the spring fed pool at Landa Park. It was a good three days and I feel like I know my son better.

Yesterday on the drive home Jakeb and I were listening to NPR and this lady was lamenting the fact that she felt inadequate to tell her sons about girls. She said that guys have four emotions – happy, sad, mad, and hungry. Girls have an emotional complexity that no man could understand. She implied that girls are weird. Jakeb got a kick out of that. If he only knew…