A bunch of campers and staff at Camp Crossroads hanging out and chatting and playing games. Good times for everyone.
This guy is awesome. It was his first time at camp and other than yes, no, and about 3 other words, he's pretty much non-verbal. Luckily, I know about as many signs as he does words, plus we both had fun making goofy noises and gestures to communicate, so we conected and had a ton of fun. He's got one of the most amazing smiles I've ever seen. I'm glad I got to meet him. He taught me a lot. I just hope I don't forget.
So a week ago I drove up to MA to do some work, then drove back to VA for the weekend to work, now I'm up in PA for a few days to work at a Camp for Kids with MR (Crossroads Camp). My parents have been helping the director out for years and are good friends of the family. Back in High School and the first part of college I helped out, but time hasn't been kind to me for the past 7 or 8 years. But hey, I only work every other weekend and my Mom was the Lifeguard for the week so she watched Lily most of the time while I took care of my crew of guys and got as many photos as I could between personal care and keeping track of folks.
Took the camera to work. Was playing Trouble with one of the residents for a while until his Alzheimer's started to do its thing and he forgot who I was and started to get agitated and combative.
On my way home from work. It's been a crazy week in the car and my time behind the wheel isn't up yet...
Driving back to VA to work for the weekend. Sideview mirror somewhere in PA. Some day I'll relax, but it isn't today.
We were about 95% finished with the deck, it was dark out, but we were still going with a halogen work lite. Then it started raining. I snapped a quick shot of my Dad standing on the deck in the dark then headed in to go to bed. Not bad for the first deck I've ever built (and I can't usually even cut a straight line).
Took a break from deck building to take Lily to the playground a few towns over for a bit. She learned how to climb the ladder and was having a blast.
Sorry about how long it's taken me to post all this stuff, it's been a crazy month and I've been running ragged. Hopefully this weekend I truly will get all this stuff updated then I'll stay on top of it until I head out of town again :). And now for hte part of the post that goes with this photo:
Got up to my parent's house today to start building a deck. It was some crazy weather up there after a 9 hour drive. If I hadn't been pooped I would have walked over to the other side of the house and gotten a photo of the woods looking all creepy and cool in the fog.
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