Because Camping Can Be In Tents

I found these fun band-aids at Target weeks ago and thought they would be a fun little gifts for Girls Camp.  I have been racking my brain for the right words and packaging to go with them.  When hours of Pinterest scrolling failed to supply what I was looking for, I decided to make my own.  On the odd chance there is another person looking for something similar, I decided to add my creation to Pinterest and save them all the trouble.  If that is you, you are most welcome.

 These are super easy to assemble.  All you need to to do is print, cut them out, fold, insert your prize, and seal them up with a bit of tape or a sticker.  Cutting an nice even circle was the hardest part for me.  (Why is Quincie gone the one day I am doing a craft project??)

 1. Print

2. Cut it out

 

3. Fold in the sides

 

4. Insert your flat prize (Band-aids, EmergenC, etc.)

 5. Secure with tape or a sticker

For My Own Sake

"I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else." ~ John Keats

This quote from a love letter written by poet John Keats has been rolling around in my head the last couple of weeks.  I get it - the kind of love he is talking about.  To be loved just for who you are, not for what you do, or what you look like, or how you contribute, but just because you are, is a treasure. 

The more I thought about it the more I think this is how grandchildren and grandparents love each other.  I know that is how I feel about my sweet little grandsons, and also how I feel about my own Grandmothers.  It is a fierce and illogical attachment.  I love them just for their own existence.  Nothing can change that and nothing can top that.

I have been looking for the perfect image to express this thought, and finally found it.  I don't know who to thank for taking this picture of my Grandma T holding me when I was just a tiny girl.  They captured that look on her face that I now recognize as the way a grandmother feels about her grandchild - pure and total love.