By day three of camp, cabin groups start to feel like family. This morning Gordon and I started the day with our heads of hill and leadership team at 7:30 where we catch a more detailed pulse of cabin life. Resoundingly, the report from each hill’s leader was that “these girls love camp!” Activities … Continued
I jinxed myself. If you reread yesterday’s post, scroll down a couple of paragraphs and I almost sound cocky. “Bored” was certainly not the right choice of words to describe my state, as it is never boring at camp. “Weird” was probably a better choice. I felt a little unusual because things were going so … Continued
There is a spark to the August session that is unlike most of our other sessions. Two weeks offers a great taste of what camp has to offer, but our hope is that your girls won’t be ready to leave at the end of the session. In a longer session girls can get out of … Continued
I’m listening to a chorus that I imagine is what it sounds like on a turkey farm. There are groups of Pineview campers who have wandered up from the canoe lake after floating their wishboats, and they are sobbing! Deep gutteral, catch your breath sobs. That’s a good sound from where I sit. These girls … Continued
This week, more than any in the summer, is the one we want to slow down. But, it goes by so fast. Too fast. I love the four-week session, and encourage any of you Mini 2 moms and dads out there considering a longer session to strongly consider this longer July session. Our vision, which … Continued
Occasionally, we will be asked to speak to a college level class studying recreation…”Masters in Camping,” we often joke. In reality, there is no preparation for what we do other than doing it. There are programs out there that teach recreation theory…hogwash I think. Of course, we need recreation. We allknow it’s good for the … Continued
The good news is that our day recovered nicely after a pretty wet start. Whereas yesterday was misty and overcast, today, it flat out was raining through the morning…not a downpour that can deliver inches in an hour, but steady enough that I put my hood up on my parka when I was walking around … Continued
Today is a perfect example of how you can’t plan your day in the mountains around what the weather prognosticators predict. I woke up this morning to a light mist, threw on my raincoat and headed over to leadership meeting, thinking that the 80% chance of rain meant a day indoors for all of us. … Continued
We awakened this morning to our Heavenly world transformed into Disney World, thanks to our terrific group of CITs from the Paw Paw Patch. CITs are technically still campers, in their last year before transitioning to Junior Counselors, and happily for long time camp parents, drawing paychecks! CITs are rising Juniors in high school, many … Continued
Tonight, I can write about how great the four week session is…back in the day (not so long ago), campers came for eight weeks, and there was only one session. There were no nightly posts, no pictures to reassure parents that a good time WAS really being had by all. In fact, digging through some … Continued
