She’s attending Camp Challenge as a member of the Zebulon Boys and Girls Club.

She went to camp about three weeks earlier than we were expecting because of a scheduling mix up.

We scrambled last week to get forms filled out and a physical exam performed.

Pitt and her mother spent a chunk of Saturday cleaning all the necessary clothes and packing for the trip.

When she returns Friday, Becky will be on vacation and together mom and daughter plan to spend the next week doing lots of stuff.

What caught my attention in all this was the pure excitement Pitt felt as she realized she was about to experience two solid weeks of unadulterated fun. No chores. No cleaning her room.

No grass to cut.

Childlike exuberance is wellknown enough to be its own catchphrase.

I can’t help but wonder when we lose the ability to be that excited about something. And I wonder why we ever lose it at all.

Adulthood brings with it the monotony of a job with no summer- long vacation.

But there must be something exciting about the work we do whether we are newspaper editors or accountants or police officers.

If work just doesn’t get our juices flowing, then surely there are things outside of the job that excite us. Maybe it’s a hobby, an event or, like Pitt, a trip.

It seems like we’d all be a little more upbeat if we had something that we were looking forward to the way a child gets excited about something.

Just think about the energy with which we would attack work if we knew something exquisite was waiting on the other side of the time clock.

Consider how much better family members we would be if we could share that level of excitement with the rest of our family.

Of course, the constant rush of adrenaline that accompanies an experience of epic proportions would probably end our lives much sooner than we currently live.

Ahh, but wouldn’t it be nice to go, looking forward to the next exciting adventure in our life?