Comments on: Happy campers

By: Unplugging this week | Working Moms Break

Unplugging this week | Working Moms Break — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:27:52 +0000

[...] unplugging this week. Family camp, here we come! I hope to not so much as glance at one electronic communications device all [...]

By: Carolyn and Alan

Carolyn and Alan — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:38:04 +0000

Thanks for making our day. We are those camp nurses who impersonated Sonny and Cher. And our son, Ian was on staff at the Nature Center last year and will be working on staff again this year. Our family has been going to BTC for going on 12 years now and it’s a part of us….our kids loved it when they were little and they still love it as teens. It’s a wonderfully magic place.

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:03:53 +0000

We recently went out to celebrate our 31st wedding anniversary. My husband (uncharacteristically) suggested we look back and enumerate the highlights. We haven’t had such a great evening out in a long time! I wonder if part of the happiness business is that things, like travel, ‘look more glamorous in retrospect’…and there’s generally no worry related to stuff that has happened like there is fretting now about what is to come. (e.g. laundry!)

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:01:42 +0000

Katrina, love that you finally got a relaxing vacation. I too just experienced the pleasure of family camp. Getting an opportunity to be with the kids away from the stress of daily life certainly puts me in a place where I can focus on the positive things in life. It is hard to have a good attitude or appreciate our many luxuries if you feel so exhausted and overwhelmed.

Being in the woods and just playing. The kids didn’t ask for anything (besides sugar) or whine the whole time. It was amazing. It was so refreshing to want to be with the kids.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:28:47 +0000

Ha! Right. Which is why I have mixed feelings about all this happiness research that is coming out right now.

We have to hold that 2 things are simultaneously true:
1. Life can, at times, be full of adversity, and our negative feelings have an important message
2. Sometimes it’s good for us to deliberately focus on the positive

By: mom2gcnj

mom2gcnj — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:42:06 +0000

Of course – it’s just my crappy attitude! Why didn’t I think of that?