Time to Retire

You may think by my title and the picture that I am wanting to retire and go to the mountains. Actually I am wanting to retire from the mountains. . .Girls camp that is. I figured out that I have spent at least 23 years at girls camp, could be more, I may have forgotten a few. That is almost 1/2 of my life I have spent one week of summer at Camp Shalom. This year I really felt my age. Not only is it harder to get up and down the mountain, I have less patience with the girls and activities. This year we had everything from girls accusing other girls of Satan worshipping to petty theft. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of good that goes on up there and there is a lot of really good girls but this year the naughty ones just really got to me so I think it is past time to retire. The beauties of the mountains though, I would really miss and I must say that I had fun with the other old ladies up there and I know that there can really be testimonies strengthened. The difference is, in the past it was kind of like childbirth, I forget from year to year how hard it is, that is no longer the case. Instead of my memory fading with age it has been enhanced! Still I will probably go again if I'm called. . .I'm such a sucker. 

-Brenda Buttars