Arts Camp, Day 5

Yay!  I survived another camp!  It was a lot of fun, and the kids cracked me up on a regular basis, but it is always sooo nice when it's done and things get back to "normal."  Today the kids did a program for their parents with dances they learned, skits they worked on, and camp songs from the week.  I think my favorite part was the 2-3 grade skit.  Every line was followed by the kids saying, "coool," or, "buuumer."  It totally made me giggle.  So, one final day of camp shoes before getting back to regular posting.

 

 

OK, so these aren't shoes.  But this girl wore crazy, mismatched knee highs all week, and I finally remembered to get a picture of them.  I love her sense of individuality.

OK, fine.  THIS isn't shoes either.  Geez, cut me some slack, would you?  But seriously, how cute is this purse?  It belongs to a 6th grade girl and she said her grandma made it for her.  I had some serious coveting moments today when I saw this.

 

 

Here are my feet today.  I generally hate things between my toes, but when I was shopping for some black sandals for our honeymoon last summer, these were all I could find.  I was trying to be a little more pastoral and dressed up today for the program since parents and family would be here.  I definitely sacrificed comfort, though.  My feet missed my comfy tennies.  Pretty sure I have a couple of blisters on the bottom of my feet from running around in these all day.  A smart woman would have worn different shoes up until the time of the program and then changed.  Clearly, after a week of camp, I am not a smart woman.









Arts Camp, Day 4

Holy buckets but I'm tired!  It's been a good week, but for some reason, this time the kids waited until Thursday to let loose with their Wednesday craziness.  We had meltdowns and injuries and cliques and tattling, and all of the rest of the usual stuff, just multiplied by what felt like about a million.  My volunteers are tired, I am tired, but the kids act like we fed them a huge bowl of sugar for both snack and lunch today.  Oh well.  One more day, and tomorrow is their program, which is always fun.

 

I only took pictures of tennies today for some reason:

 

 

I love the colors of these, including the socks.  This picture says spring to me.

 

5th Grade boy shoes.  See?  I can like boys' shoes, too.  The color didn't turn out well, because these have really cool lime green laces and details. 

 

Twin shoes!  Not shoes that are twins, but shoes on the feet of twins.  The yellow socks are actually tie-dyed.  Which is awesome.



Arts Camp, Day 3

Wednesday is usually when the kids get totally squrrelly and crazy.  They were wilder than yesterday, but not as bad as they've been some camps.  Wednesday is the day when they have gotten comfortable at church, but they aren't tired out yet.  Tomorrow they will start to be tired, and by Friday they are pretty exhausted.  Here are a couple more shoe pictures from the day:

 

Those boots completely crack me up.  How awesome are those?  And the plaid, canvas shoes are adorable.

These I was kind of coveting.  Good thing they are too small for me or I might have tried to steal them...

 

Today's quote comes from the same 3rd grade girl as yesterday.  They were talking about water and what we use it for.  Her comment was, "My brother once used the toilet to wash my cat!"  I have no idea if her stories are real, or just part of an amazing imagination!

 

Arts Camp, Day 2

Day 2 is going very well.  The kids are a little wound up, but not as bad as they usually are on Wednesday.  It's calmer for me, too.  The first day there are always a million details to straighten out, and then things calm down as the week goes on.  I still run a lot, but not as bad as that first day.  The kids have some great shoes, though, so I took some pics today while we were outside for lunch.  They all thought I was crazy when I asked them if I could take pictures of their shoes, but no one told me no.

 

The color didn't come out great, but I loved the contrasting turquoise zipper on the gray tennies.

 



 

The pink and black belong to the feet of one of my favorite kiddos of all time.  I know I shouldn't have favorites, but on this one I just can't help myself.  She is awesome on mulitple levels.  Her friend in the boots is awesome too.  Who wouldn't be with great boots like that?

 

 

I love feet in circle pictures.

 

Oh, and here's my favorite quote of the day so far:

 

3rd grade girl:  "Pastor Sarah, we were just talking about a cookie in the shape of a witch that my grandma made me!"

 

Me:  "That sounds really cool."

 

3GG:  "Yeah, my dog ate it.  My dog's dead now."

 

Whoa...knowing this child, I'm pretty sure those 2 incidents aren't related, but dang, kid!

Arts Camp, Day 1

Today was the first day of Arts Camp at church.  Our school system runs on a modified traditional schedule, which means the kids get 2 weeks off for Fall break, Christmas, and Spring break, with a fairly short summer.  The church does a camp the second week of Fall and Spring breaks.  Arts Camp is usually the calmest camp, and the smallest (I'm sure the 2 go together).  We have about 50 kids regiestered this year, which is smaller than the last 2 years.  It sounds pretty impressive (which it is) until you realize we get anywhere between 180 and 300 for Vacation Bible School during the summer.

 

As the director, I run a LOT.  I got to the church at 6:30 this morning, camp went from 9-3, and I might have managed to sit down for an hour if I total up all the little breaks.  The kids are gone now, so I'm sitting, writing this, and then taking care of everything I need to do for tomorrow.  I usually sleep REALLY well during camp weeks.  Camps are a lot of fun, but as I said I am on my feet most of the day, so I thought I'd break out the new tennies and see how they did.  I've worked out in them, but this is a bit more extensive.

 

 

I think they did pretty well, all things considered.  They definitely have a a lot of good support, and felt great while I raced up and down the stairs 7,000 times.  They were even good during the Hippo Song!

 

I didn't personally get any great quotes today, but our parish nurse told me about 2 small girls who came to her with headaches and then proceeded to tell her all about the black aliens with red eyes who live in their minds and give them headaches.  She told them not to watch that kind of movie right before going to bed...