Girls Camp!!!

Wow, I am really behind. Girls Camp was in August (ugh) and the second week before school. Can you say craziness??? But is was worth all the fun. This year Lauren got to come and join the fun. By the fun, I mean lip syncs, secret sisters, devotionals, and making new friends. This year, I got put in a tent with my three best friends, Kaylee, Marissa, and Chancey. Can you say party?? We stayed up really late, talked, and started the official game of girls camp: Phase 10! What a fun game. We will definitely be playing that next year! We also spent a lot of time being lazy in the tent. Chancey stole my camera for a while, and took some really great pics!



My Disorder

It is the Christmas Season! With snow, fun, and most importantly, love!

Recently, I was reading one of the many Christmas books we have stocked in our house. I found one called "Sharing Christmas." It is a collection of many stories from many different people. I just opened to the story that had an interesting title and read this:

"I was fourteen and I wanted to die. Part of the problem was that I was fourteen and female. My brother John, the doctor, says that being fourteen and female is a disorder actually recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, and his professor once spent a whole day talking about it in his Introduction to Psychiatry class. Psychical symptoms of the fourteen-and-female syndrome include slumping in chairs, standing with arms folded across the chest, and wearing the exact same clothes as other disturbed fourteen-year-old girls. Behavioral symptoms include crying, trying on lip gloss, crying, going to the mall, crying, talking to disturbed fourteen-year-old boys on the telephone- and crying. It's a terrible disease, and so far there's no cure."

What a disease. I know I have it. I know a ton of people have it, all of them being fourteen year old girls. I say that we should find a cure, because we are in great need of one.