July 27, 2006
LifeNet Vacation
This week’s journal entry would be so much better served as a scrapbook layout. The pictures really do tell the better story. If you’ve been joining me for these weekly “cups of coffee” for any length of time then you know that every summer we meet at Mandalay Beach in California with four other families to vacation. This has been a tradition for over ten years. And this tradition is full of traditions! It is so funny to see the kids, no matter how old and cool they get, cling to each and every tradition, unwilling to forsake even the smallest one.
This year, our friends, the Steadmans, wrote a special song to celebrate another year of making lifelong memories with lifetime friends. They pretty much summed it all up in this little diddy, so I’m simply going to post the song with tons of pictures for accompaniment.
Everybody Ought to Know
(Chorus)
Everybody ought to know
Everybody ought to know
Everybody ought to know
How Lifenet began
(repeat)
Verse One
Steadmans hosted on Sundays
Clarks and Mullens, Caubles too
Babes would nap and parents prayed
Then we all ate potluck food
Church then can-celled our Lifenet
Mullens planned a trip to Man-da-lay
Clarks and Stead-mans joined them
Thus began our annual “Play”
Verse Two
Caubles joined the second year
Jove’s joined along the way
Mullens, Caubles moved to Texas
Now we’re spread out everywhere
San Diego & Hawaii
Celebrating ten great years
Boardwalk, beach, and dinner picnics
We look forward to all year
Verse Three
Mandalay is where we’ll be
This is sure the life for me
Surf’en – Swim’en– pool and fun
Twenty-three kids on the run
Capistranos - Happy Hour
Twinkle Time and Parent Night
Flashlight hunts and Sunset Meals
More Somores & Sleepen’ overs
Verse Four
Here’s the names of those we love
Scott and Terri, Statia, Fred
Steve and Lisa, Janice, Mick
Christopher Glenn and Dana too
Here’s the twenty-something kids
Tasia, Brandon, and Charise
Brianna, Tucker, Michael, Tessa
Briana, Andrew, Haven, Rachel
Verse Five
Allie, Clancy, Nick and Katherine
Johnny, Josh, David, Brandon
Shana, Madeline, Matty, Ella
Thirty-three in all – it’s true
If you think you understand
How this Lifenet began
Turn around and shake a hand
Hug a branch from this “Cool Clan”
Verse Six
I’m in Lifenet – how ‘bout you?
Do you do the things we do?
We sang our song and took you through
Now you know this Lifenet too
Now this song will finally end
Now just join in with a friend
Everybody ought to know (repeat)
How our Life-net began
(how our Life-net began)!
Posted by weblion at 06:09 PM
