I'm still sick, although definitely getting better. Yesterday was miserable and I spent a lot the day going through the motions, except that I was wading through a world of jello- I could kind of see, and kind of hear, but it was all fuzzy and I was pretty out of it. It is pirate week and the Assistant Director is SO excited. He has several pirate outfits and lots of ideas for programming. It's been wonderful because I can wallow in misery while he leads the kids through.
Last night he had them building rafts out of wood and logs. Today, they carried them down to the swimming beach and competed in a relay race where two kids paddled out to the buoy and then back to the beach and switched with the next two on their team and so on. I was a little worried about how it would go, but it was really fun and I would even consider doing it again next summer.
It's no fun to be sick, but there is added pressure because we have such a small staff, if one person is out, it is felt by everyone. And not to be too full of myself, but I do a lot around here. I was worried. Thankfully, by this point in the summer, everyone knows what needs to be done, and my staff have done a fabulous job of picking up the slack. They have managed to read my mind, take initiative or take ownership on almost everything this week, so camp hasn't fallen apart even though I took two naps today. Maybe this is what my job would be like if we were fully staffed. I would love to put my feet up and chill on a regular basis. So that's my new goal. I would like to get this camp to the point where everything runs so smoothly that I can relax a lot, and not just when I'm on my death bed, but in full health.
I think we can get there...
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