It is going swimmingly!

People often ask how is life on the road.  My reply is varied as the weather, today however I would say it is going swimmingly.  This camp ground we are at requires me to be with my 11 and 12 year old constantly.  I am not even sure they are allowed to go to the bathroom by themselves.  Before you judge me these are the last  two of eight children, I know very well what my kids are capable of.  But I digress.  So the last two days I have spent a couple of hours at the pool.  Yesterday I got in for awhile and did a little exercise, today I am shivering wrapped in a towel.  But as I sit here watching them play I am excited for what they are experiencing.  At the beginning of this adventure a fine and knowledgeable woman told me that her greatest joy of this endeavor are that her children were each others closest friends.  At the time I couldn't comprehend that but seven months later I see it beginning to happen.  My kids will tell you it is because there is no one else to play with, to which I reply I don't care how it happened, I am just happy it did.  The change is coming slowly.  They are playing in the pool together playing video games together.  Sometimes they even hang out and talk in the trailer because there is nothing else to do and I find as I watch them that this too is one of my greatest joys.  Siblings is a forever relationship.  So these games of tag and rescue the drowning swimmer are more than just play, they are the best kind of living.