Fun Weekend

What a whirlwind weekend!

The kids left on Friday as usual, except that two of the kids' parents didn't show up. When I called their emergency contact, he said, "she's supposed to be there by 3." Our parent program starts at 1, ends at 2 and the entire staff was headed to a baseball game Friday night and needed to leave no later than 3:30 in order to make it on time. I'd been hoping to drive away from camp by 3pm at the latest.

I hate being on a tight schedule because you just never know about traffic or other factors, so I was stressed out to begin. The mother wasn't answering her phone, so I wasn't sure if she was actually going to be there by 3pm or not. I also felt bad for the kids. They were the only kids without a parent at the program and they kept asking me what time she was getting there, worried they were going to get left at camp. I felt bad for them and kept trying to reassure them, but in my head I was cursing the mother for being disrespectful to camp, a crappy mom and an all around bad person.

I gave PDS the keys to my house (the meet up place since a few staff were driving separately), the tickets and told her to go ahead. Nurse J and I stayed at camp with the kids. Luckily, the mom got there at 3:30 and we were able to jump in my car one minute later. We even beat the camp van to my house (they stopped for food). I'm not a fan of baseball, but the stadium is brand new and really nice. The suite was spectacular and the staff were so excited and awestruck. It was a long, exhausting day, but really fun too.

On Saturday, my mom picked me up at my house to drive me and Griffin to the vet. I wanted to leave my car for the staff who were staying at my house, so I appreciated her being willing to drive me. Griffin's eye has been looking kind of off, so I wanted his vet to look at him since we were home.

Speaking of home- this was the first time I'd been at my house in over 2 months, and it's been 4 months since I actually lived there. My mom has been going to my house every week to mow the lawn and get my mail. She's been taking care of my house and I really appreciate it. I've never gone this long away from home and it was weird to be back. I felt like a visitor, touching things and opening drawers. Camp has become home and I'm not sure what it will be like when I move back in a month.

Saturday afternoon, the whole staff went to Counselor H's house for a BBQ, and then some of us went to the mall and to Target to do some shopping. We went out for dinner near my house and then we went to see a comedy improv show that PDP is an actor.

Today we packed up the van and headed back to camp. It has been a weekend packed with fun things, but I don't feel like I've had a break. I knew that when we started planning it- these kinds of weekends are no different than camp- it's a lot of coordinating, details and organizing everyone. But I'm really glad we could get away from camp for a while and have a fun experience.