For two years, we pretended we were camping. My four-year-old great niece, Maxley, would drive my motorhome to the park and announce thirty-seconds later we had arrived. We would then pretend we were camping in Florida, or Michigan, or wherever, right there in my driveway. Last weekend the pretending gave way to real camping. I […]
As we climbed to the top of Fort Mountain to see the fire tower and an overlook, she saw an entire city from a whole new perspective. My little niece wanted to climb over the railing and “go there.” Seeing farmland, ponds, roads, cars, buildings, houses, and hawks in flight may have been the most mind-blowing experience of her young life, but her new friends? That’s all she has talked about since we left. What a joy to experience so many firsts through the eyes of a child. It was truly a week of firsts.