Tents are fully loaded with kid junk...                               108

They finally  began their day taking their daughters tent down. Before they began, she stood thinking while looking at David, ‘Blue, if we find her today, will she be sleeping in our tent?’ He turned and hugged her so tight. She was so sweet and so concerned for her children and their comfort. 

‘Yes my sweet wife, our daughter will be home today and we will put her in our tent. We will hold her tight and love her with all our might. Now let's get busy and tear it all down.' 

They laughed at all the stuff she had in her tent as they filled the boxes. Her stuff took up as much space as the tent. 

'Goodness I had no idea she had this much stuff.' She began to look in her toy box of stuff animals. How they meant so much to her when she was small. Now they just took up room in this box.  

Dad had a stack of her books and notes. He leafed through them, with a face that went from happy to proud to deep sadness as he read some of her words. How profound her need to grow was. How he knew this too, he wanted to grow so fast when he was young. 

'Blue, let's go eat, I'm hungry.' He took off to start breakfast while she went back to the tent to clean up the baby. After he was all clean and smelling nice, she put him in his cradle inside the tent. As she came out, she had a long stretch. As she shook herself out of that, her mood fell. As a new mother, the hormones go up and down, and it can be hard on the family and the mother of course.

Blue walked close to her. 'Patty my love, are you encountering difficult challenges? That means you're ready for great things my darling.  The challenges that come your way are precisely the ones you are now able to handle. If they're becoming tougher, that means you have become stronger.'  She kept her head down. He turned her upwards, to look into her eyes.

'Take a step back my wife, take a deep breath, and consider it an opportunity. For that's exactly what it is.  You've grown so much that you're ready to move to a higher level now. Take the opportunity to do so. Choose to see it and make it real Patty.'

She all of a sudden had a surge of good love and had to jump up with joy. 'OH BLUE, today WILL be her day we find her.' He held her tightly and gave her a long deep kiss. 

  Patty went into the tent to check on David, then back to clean up the shower and other areas. Bluesage made them a treat of grass clippings with bird feathers, flower petals and berries.  

Breakfast was made and eaten quickly.They talked of what would be thrown out of their stuff.  Years had given them more junk than necessary and they had to weed it out.

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