Sweet Summertime

So, as it turns out, I'M STILL ALIVE. It's been just a little less than a month since my last post, which is completely out of character for me. I've been so unbelievably busy. Once exams were over things DID NOT slow down.

My brother, Evan, and I at his graduation.

I traveled all over for various reasons. The day after I got home I was up at 4:30 to fly from Burlington to Rochester, NY. The next day I drove the 7 hours back home. A few days later I was off to Hartford, CT to see my mom's family. We drove 5 hours to and from in the same day. That next weekend I was off to Burke, VT for my brother's graduation from Burke Mountain Academy.

View from the screened porch at the cottage.

Finally, after one day of full rest I moved into a cottage on the lake and started work at The Tyler Place. My first week was spent running all over after 2 1/2 - 4 year old kids. We went to a marionette show, played on trampolines, hung out in the Bookmobile, went fishing, and (thankfully) had a movie night. It was a crazy week to say the least. After the kids left Friday all of the counselors hugged it out in the Playhouse in celebration of making it through the first week.

This isn't to say that the kids were terrible. They were actually pretty awesome for the most part. It's just that we have a lot of new counselors joining us this year and a week as a counselor is a lot to jump into. Now that we've all gotten through the first week it'll get easier as everyone gets used to how things go here.

I'm now working with Seniors who are somewhere around the ages of 8 and 9. Today is my day off and after this post I expect to spend it at the TP pool, which you can check out in this post from last summer.

I promise to have a post of some substance at some point. Things will calm down as the summer gets rolling and I'll have a little more time to focus on something other than how nuts my life is!