Here it is, August 29th and I am sitting in my bed at 8:20 on a Monday morning and just feeling happy, sad and grateful. After 8 weeks basically non-stop chaos, craziness, stress, love and light, I'm done camp for the summer. For the next couple of weeks I will be cleaning up and packing up camp and then it's back to the real world. Of course that's not to say that what happened at camp isn't real, it's just that there is no way of explaining it to someone who wasn't there. Trying to explain why Cowboys vs. Baboons made such a great theme day is futile, but know that I had a smile on my face during each one of those skits.
This was very funny at the time, so funny that I took a picture of it, however I have no idea what it means right now. Which is very much the truth of camp.
One thing I didn't do much of this summer is knit, or make in any way. During the quiet weekend between week 6 and 7 (around mid-August, I'm not great with exact dates during camp) I started a fingering weight mitered square blanket and it was the best knitting I had all summer. It was so wonderfully bite sized and all the colors and textures was really interesting to the kids.
It does mean that Henry (my darling nephew) turned 1 yesterday without a hand knit birthday gift, however I don't think he noticed!
So I'm taking about 10 days of slow reintroduction, I'm going to be up at camp getting the closing chores done, completing my end of season paperwork and also working on a whole pile of knitting. Hopefully, I will finish up Jim's birthday socks (his birthday was back in January!).