Laughs, Love, and Long Drives: How Hispanics Do a Road Trip

Laughs, Love, and Long Drives: How Hispanics Do a Road Trip

The second post I’ve been meaning to do (since June 😆🙈) about Lia going to camp . . . 

Getting Lia to her first sleep away summer camp at Camp Kahdalea was no small feat – it’s a 10 hour drive to North Carolina. That meant drive 10 hrs there – spend the night – drive 10 hrs back home. And less than a week later do it all over again. Whew! 

Luckily, my mom went with me both times so I wouldn’t have to drive alone. It’s true, a mother’s worry knows no age. I am so grateful to have her and that she’s so caring and thoughtful to have wanted to go; she’s the best and I am blessed. 💕

Let me tell you, while it was really rough on my back and neck (thank God for chiro, massage, and acupuncture LOL) that time with my mom was really special; we had such a blast, enjoying the trip, not stressing to leave or get there at a certain time (well, besides the check-in time of course), goofing around, and laughing A LOT. 

Throughout the trip I was very aware of how we (hispanics) do things vastly differently from Americans. To the point that I said “I’m going to do a post about this”. LOL So here it is. A little glimpse into how the Herrera Delcore family rolls. We like to have fun, goof around, take our time, eat good food, and stay up late. 

From ragging on her about the very questionable music selection she brought, to acting like clowns at Cracker Barrel, it was our silly hispanic family at its best. I will treasure it always. 💖

Pura vida! 🇨🇷

Some of our funny finds at Cracker Barrel.

Finding Peace (and God) in the Details

Finding Peace (and God) in the Details

I’ve been wanting to write this since June. Yes, June. Leave me alone, I’m a busy mom. 😝

While it’s been on my heart this whole time, hearing how Hurricane Helene has ravaged N Carolina made me want to share my own little story about this beautiful state and the very special people there. My thoughts and prayers are with them. I know God is too. 🙏❤️

Back in June when I drove up to N Carolina to bring Lia to Camp Kahdalea @twofuncamps – her first sleep away camp – I was still feeling a tad unsure about the whole thing. See, I had never done a sleep away summer camp. I went to sports camps where you go every day for a few hours but then you go back home. Or I was in Costa Rica visiting my family the rest of the summer. The whole sleep away camp thing is very American; since it’s not something people do in Costa Rica I wasn’t raised that way; it was never on my radar and it never crossed my mind that I would send my kid to one. 

So by the time I even CONSIDERED it, it was already March. And we struggled A LOT with deciding whether or not to let her go. I finally registered her on May 10. (Mind you, the only dates that worked for us were June 6-11.) She was leaving in less than a month . . .

But God is so good and He is a God in the details . . .

So I drive the ten hours there, we spend the night, then wake up to take her to camp. We walk to the car as we’re leaving the hotel and an orange butterfly appears and flutters all around my mom, like in her face. She didn’t even realize it was a butterfly; she swatted at it to make it go away. LOL But it didn’t. When she realized what it was she stood still and it landed on her! It then landed on me! Then on Lia! We were in awe. It felt like such a special moment. The butterfly stuck around, fluttering all around us for several minutes! It would stay on our hands looking at us, as if looking right into our eyes. It was uncanny. We couldn’t shake the feeling that this was special. Supernatural even. It felt like God sent us one of His little creatures as a sign to let us know it was going to be okay. Lia was meant to come here. Mom and I felt this peace over bringing her to this camp. 🦋

Thank you, God. Thank you for being a God in the details. For sending us this little yet meaningful sign to give this mom peace over leaving her little girl in a place far away from home. No feeling goes unnoticed for our wonderful and loving God. It was just so beautiful to feel like He, the magnificent and omnipotent God, was watching over us and wanted to comfort a worried mother even with it being over something so small (in the grand scheme of things). But nothing is too small (or too large) for our God. 🤍✝️🕊️

We pulled into camp and met some members of the Trufant family who own it. They are so special and wonderful. We immediately hit it off with one of the wives; she’s Hispanic too. While every other parent quickly dropped off their daughter and left, mom and l ended up chatting with her for more than an hour – in typical Hispanic fashion.😆
We❤️NC