"I feel like I'm on the Titanic right now."
I found myself saying this legitimately two times in the course of 24 hours...
1. At Girl's Night, one of my girls lost her earring in the pool. So, Kaity and I borrowed goggles and spent the next 45 minutes at the bottom of the pool looking for it. It reminded me of the part in Titanic where they lose the keys underwater and have to go get them. Don't ask, I don't know, it just did. Sadly enough, we didn't find her earring and she was really upset. More on this later.
2. The next day, at the pool, the girls decided they were going to play the, "Let's Kill our Counselors" game. So they spent the whole hour jumping on us and trying to get us underwater. I think one of them almost broke my neck and I got hit/grabbed in some WEIRD places, but it was a lot of fun and the girls loved it. Anyway, so the three of us counselors tried to team up and "save each other," which involved holding hands/wrists while the girls tried to pry us apart. This is when I said, "I feel like I'm on the Titanic right now" again, partly as a joke, but also because there were lots of shouts of "don't let go!" after which I clearly did.
I'm telling you guys, I'm getting more ridiculous day after day. But I do hope you enjoy my stories. :)
This week has been a LOT. Very good though, and I am seriously having to rely on the Lord for strength and patience.
The Health Center
I have been in the health center more times this week than I have the entire time I have been here. I feel like we have one of those cabins where the girls see one person go to the nurse, so they all want to go. Since Tuesday Night:
-So the girl that lost her earring had a sister in cabin 20. She was really upset that night and wanted to talk to her sister, so I radioed (is that a word?) Lewisville and found out that she was in the health center. So I told my camper and said that we couldn't see her that night but that she could write her a note. So I take the note up to the health center and come back to my cabin.
- When I get back, Kaity tells me that another camper now needs to go to the nurse because she has a bite or something on her stomach that is real red and she has stomach cramps too. So I'm like, of course, let's go. (She's fine, no worries.)
-Wednesday morning I find out that my camper's sister is going home because she is so sick. So I take my girl to go see her and this leaves her more upset than before. (But I really had no choice, because she would have been upset either way...) So anyway, we spend about an hour dealing with that.
- At lunch, one of my campers gets kicked in the ankle by her sister because she won't take the trash. So we go to the nurse to get an ice pack.
- Going back to Legacy to meet up with our cabin, I see Sydney walking toward me with my camper who's sister went home. She is crying and says her stomach "feels funny." (STOP. So I figured that it's probably just nerves/being upset about her sister because she has been upset all day. BUT I couldn't really NOT take her to the nurse, because what if she really was sick and had what her sister had.) So we go. And turns out that she is just upset about her sister. The nurse calls her mom to check on the sister, who is now FINE and returning to camp. So, we spend about an hour sitting in the health center watching the Incredibles drinking sprite and trying to calm down and such. I did enjoy this because it was SWEET time with this girl.
- BUT while we are there, Taylor from Lewisville comes in the room and says, "Hey, you have another camper here." So I go out into the main room and see ANOTHER one of my girls who is also crying and upset. She tells me/the nurses that she felt like "she couldn't breathe." So they check her lungs and she's totally fine. Then they check her throat and it's red, so they have to do a strep test. She then gets SUPER upset because she is afraid of them sticking the swabs in and that it will gag her. (Is this too much information?) SO, we have to spend about fifteen minutes to calm her down, and I let them do the test on me to show her that it doesn't hurt AND I'm trying to keep checking up on my other camper who is also in the health center. Turns out, she is totally fine too, doesn't have strep. So, we go to the pool.
THEN it's my night off, so I leave. BUT I come back and find out:
- that two more girls went to the nurse, now fine.
- and one (the "I don't have strep" one) is spending the night in the health center. AND that earlier when she came to the nurse, she told Sydney that her stomach hurt and she was about to throw up, but by the time she got to me it was, "my throat closed up and I can't breathe."
- Woke up this morning and ANOTHER one thought she was sick. Took her, she was fine. Picked up the one who stayed overnight and so far today we are GOOD.
But seriously, is that ridiculous? Not complaining, just saying...
Strength
So yesterday we did the Rockwall. It was my first time to actually do it with campers, and like sailing, it took me about five minutes in before my brain was screaming, "THIS IS A BAD IDEA." You guys, it was so hard. I was seriously dying. My hands were cramping up and it was HOT and I seriously thought, "There is no way I can do this five more times." But clearly I couldn't show it. I was on the hard one, so my girls were getting stuck and none of them could get past this one part. I was frustrated and did NOT want to be there anymore. I couldn't let my kids know and I'm not going to be like, "I'm in pain, so you have to come down now." But honestly, it was ROUGH. And I was just like, "Please, Lord, give me strength because I cannot do this." (and I'm pretty sure I may have said it out loud once, under my breath of course. I don't think anyone heard me, but that's how bad it was.)
What a cool thing that was. Because I was there, watching my girls struggle up this wall and talking to them about the verse in Psalms that says, "I will NOT be shaken." and encouraging them and helping them and focusing everything on them. But at the same time, I was struggling too. And the Lord was totally there in that. I ended up being so focused on them that I wasn't even thinking about me anymore, and it got easier each time a girl went up. Two of my girls made it to the top, and that was AWESOME to see. To be able to lower them down and unhook them while they're shaking and say, "I am SO proud of you." They are rockstars. :)
It was such a good reminder for me that I cannot do this on my own.
1. At Girl's Night, one of my girls lost her earring in the pool. So, Kaity and I borrowed goggles and spent the next 45 minutes at the bottom of the pool looking for it. It reminded me of the part in Titanic where they lose the keys underwater and have to go get them. Don't ask, I don't know, it just did. Sadly enough, we didn't find her earring and she was really upset. More on this later.
2. The next day, at the pool, the girls decided they were going to play the, "Let's Kill our Counselors" game. So they spent the whole hour jumping on us and trying to get us underwater. I think one of them almost broke my neck and I got hit/grabbed in some WEIRD places, but it was a lot of fun and the girls loved it. Anyway, so the three of us counselors tried to team up and "save each other," which involved holding hands/wrists while the girls tried to pry us apart. This is when I said, "I feel like I'm on the Titanic right now" again, partly as a joke, but also because there were lots of shouts of "don't let go!" after which I clearly did.
I'm telling you guys, I'm getting more ridiculous day after day. But I do hope you enjoy my stories. :)
This week has been a LOT. Very good though, and I am seriously having to rely on the Lord for strength and patience.
The Health Center
I have been in the health center more times this week than I have the entire time I have been here. I feel like we have one of those cabins where the girls see one person go to the nurse, so they all want to go. Since Tuesday Night:
-So the girl that lost her earring had a sister in cabin 20. She was really upset that night and wanted to talk to her sister, so I radioed (is that a word?) Lewisville and found out that she was in the health center. So I told my camper and said that we couldn't see her that night but that she could write her a note. So I take the note up to the health center and come back to my cabin.
- When I get back, Kaity tells me that another camper now needs to go to the nurse because she has a bite or something on her stomach that is real red and she has stomach cramps too. So I'm like, of course, let's go. (She's fine, no worries.)
-Wednesday morning I find out that my camper's sister is going home because she is so sick. So I take my girl to go see her and this leaves her more upset than before. (But I really had no choice, because she would have been upset either way...) So anyway, we spend about an hour dealing with that.
- At lunch, one of my campers gets kicked in the ankle by her sister because she won't take the trash. So we go to the nurse to get an ice pack.
- Going back to Legacy to meet up with our cabin, I see Sydney walking toward me with my camper who's sister went home. She is crying and says her stomach "feels funny." (STOP. So I figured that it's probably just nerves/being upset about her sister because she has been upset all day. BUT I couldn't really NOT take her to the nurse, because what if she really was sick and had what her sister had.) So we go. And turns out that she is just upset about her sister. The nurse calls her mom to check on the sister, who is now FINE and returning to camp. So, we spend about an hour sitting in the health center watching the Incredibles drinking sprite and trying to calm down and such. I did enjoy this because it was SWEET time with this girl.
- BUT while we are there, Taylor from Lewisville comes in the room and says, "Hey, you have another camper here." So I go out into the main room and see ANOTHER one of my girls who is also crying and upset. She tells me/the nurses that she felt like "she couldn't breathe." So they check her lungs and she's totally fine. Then they check her throat and it's red, so they have to do a strep test. She then gets SUPER upset because she is afraid of them sticking the swabs in and that it will gag her. (Is this too much information?) SO, we have to spend about fifteen minutes to calm her down, and I let them do the test on me to show her that it doesn't hurt AND I'm trying to keep checking up on my other camper who is also in the health center. Turns out, she is totally fine too, doesn't have strep. So, we go to the pool.
THEN it's my night off, so I leave. BUT I come back and find out:
- that two more girls went to the nurse, now fine.
- and one (the "I don't have strep" one) is spending the night in the health center. AND that earlier when she came to the nurse, she told Sydney that her stomach hurt and she was about to throw up, but by the time she got to me it was, "my throat closed up and I can't breathe."
- Woke up this morning and ANOTHER one thought she was sick. Took her, she was fine. Picked up the one who stayed overnight and so far today we are GOOD.
But seriously, is that ridiculous? Not complaining, just saying...
Strength
So yesterday we did the Rockwall. It was my first time to actually do it with campers, and like sailing, it took me about five minutes in before my brain was screaming, "THIS IS A BAD IDEA." You guys, it was so hard. I was seriously dying. My hands were cramping up and it was HOT and I seriously thought, "There is no way I can do this five more times." But clearly I couldn't show it. I was on the hard one, so my girls were getting stuck and none of them could get past this one part. I was frustrated and did NOT want to be there anymore. I couldn't let my kids know and I'm not going to be like, "I'm in pain, so you have to come down now." But honestly, it was ROUGH. And I was just like, "Please, Lord, give me strength because I cannot do this." (and I'm pretty sure I may have said it out loud once, under my breath of course. I don't think anyone heard me, but that's how bad it was.)
What a cool thing that was. Because I was there, watching my girls struggle up this wall and talking to them about the verse in Psalms that says, "I will NOT be shaken." and encouraging them and helping them and focusing everything on them. But at the same time, I was struggling too. And the Lord was totally there in that. I ended up being so focused on them that I wasn't even thinking about me anymore, and it got easier each time a girl went up. Two of my girls made it to the top, and that was AWESOME to see. To be able to lower them down and unhook them while they're shaking and say, "I am SO proud of you." They are rockstars. :)
It was such a good reminder for me that I cannot do this on my own.
"You have armed me with STRENGTH for the battle..."
- Psalm 18:39
- Psalm 18:39
In Other News:
- I talked to LCP last night and I pretty much haven't talked to her in five years. Five years, I mean, since Saturday. But apparently she decides to let exciting things happen in her life when I'm NOT around to share them with her. But that's okay. So anyway we talk, and it's exciting and fun and I find myself saying, "LAUREN!" multiple times. But I hang up and am all, "That's not fair." But it's good and I am excited for her. :) More on this maybe...
- Hopefully I will have time to show you pictures soon. I have some good ones.
- Please keep reading. I have good things to write about, I promise. :)
- I talked to LCP last night and I pretty much haven't talked to her in five years. Five years, I mean, since Saturday. But apparently she decides to let exciting things happen in her life when I'm NOT around to share them with her. But that's okay. So anyway we talk, and it's exciting and fun and I find myself saying, "LAUREN!" multiple times. But I hang up and am all, "That's not fair." But it's good and I am excited for her. :) More on this maybe...
- Hopefully I will have time to show you pictures soon. I have some good ones.
- Please keep reading. I have good things to write about, I promise. :)
I have to get back to my kids soon. CRAFTS and I am SO EXCITED.
I seriously hope my blog makes sense. I feel like it gets more and more ridiculous every time I write. But whatever.
Lots more to write about this week, but probably won't be on again until Saturday. So be excited. :)
I seriously hope my blog makes sense. I feel like it gets more and more ridiculous every time I write. But whatever.
Lots more to write about this week, but probably won't be on again until Saturday. So be excited. :)
Hey Haley, Uncle D here. Looks like you are having a great time. I really miss you and can't wait to see you. If you are off this Saturday, I have an extra ticket to the Wizard of Oz at the State Fair, just let me know. I will hang with little man and Papa.
Love,
Uncle D