I'm FREE!!

I'm free!!!!!!!!! I drove home last night and I don't have to go back any time soon. I have the rest of this week, weekend and next week off. I am planning to do some serious sleeping in, watching tv and doing nothing. Camp is clean and organized, and my dad has a month by month to-do list until summer. And I am off the hook! No more responsibility!

I shouldn't make it sound so dramatic. I will be back to camp probably within September. Now that my dad lives there, going to visit isn't an afternoon barbecue, rather, a weekend up north. And once I've had some time to chill out, I will begin to think about, plan for and strongly desire to be back to camp. Actually, last night, I had 2 really great ideas for training and then I had a really fun idea this morning for arts and crafts.... so really, it's never over really. And I'm glad. I love this job. Yes, I was excited for the summer to be over, but mostly because I have learned so much and can't wait to start over and improve everything. I feel incredibly blessed to have a career that I enjoy so much and I am looking forward to getting back into the office for my Fall, Winter, Spring projects.

But right now, I am doing several home improvement projects (I can hear drilling as I type this), getting ready to welcome a puppy to my life, I signed up to take pottery class every Monday night for the next 3 months, I am going back to the gym on a regular basis, I want to road trip to Iowa to visit my bff, go out to lunch with all of my girl friends... Whew, I might actually be busier now than I was at camp. But I am responsible for only myself, not kids, staff, parents or buildings that always seem to have plumbing problems. And that feels wonderful!

Life is good.