One Crazy Summer

You may have noticed I’ve been AWOL lately.  It’s been one crazy summer, but not like the John Cusack movie.  June started off kinda slow, but then July has gone into overdrive.  Here’s what I’m in the middle of right now, and I’ll keep it somewhat short because I’m going in a thousand directions all at once.  But I wanted to briefly check in so that you all didn’t think the Girl Scout mafia finally caught up to me.

Last week my youngest daughter and I had the opportunity to go to summer camp for a week at WaBak.  It was two childhood dreams all wrapped into one – I got to go to summer camp AND be a counselor.  It was about thirty-five years after the fact, but that’s okay!  Growing up, I vicariously lived through summer camp movies from the 80s since my family couldn’t afford it, and I never sold enough cookies to get a free week of camp.  I was so jealous of Caroline and Jenny who did!  And those carefree counselors looked so cool!  I wanted to be a cool counselor too!  Well I got my chance!   Here are some takeaways from last week:  Continue reading