Camp Homelani

This weekend I was invited to attend an overnight Women's Leadership Retreat. Thankfully Darrick is home so I was free to go. There were 12 ladies who attended and all the costs, including meals were covered. Camp Homelani is located on the North Shore past Wailua. It is a Christian camp run by the Salvation Army. It is very peaceful and quiet there. We all stayed in one cottage that had multiple beds and pull out bed couches. We had a wonderful time of sharing and encouraging one another. I got to know ladies that I have seen at church but did not know on a personal level.

Darrick told me that last night he took the boys to McDonalds for dinner. He was in one of the lines ordering when he heard the lady next to him ask the employee if she could have a new cup. He looked over and there was Jacob licking the sides of this lady's cup! Darrick said, "What are you doing? That is not our drink!" Jacob said "I thought it was our drink" and Darrick said "Well even if it was ours you don't lick it on the counter!" The lady took her new drink and left. That's our Jacob...

This afternoon we stopped by a store in Waipahu called Savers. Our Women's Ministry Leader, Pam, told me about it and what good deals it has. On the outside of the store it said "1000's of Halloween costumes" which I think was a bit of an exaggeration but it drew us in. Savers is a thrift store like a Goodwill.

Kids Halloween costumes can be really expensive and the boys had already decided what they wanted to be. Micah-Zorro and Jacob-Ninja. Would you believe that we found both of those costumes! Micah's was $7.99 and Jake's was $3.99! We let them each pick out a little toy and bought face make-up to make Micah look like Zorro. At the register the lady told us our total was $4.98!!! We were confused and she explained that everything with a yellow tag was only $.99 and both the boys costumes had a yellow tag! We were so excited, who doesn't love a great deal!