In a sea of back to school, work and DIS cruise planning! There is so much to do and time is getting away from me.
I have come to believe that our customers at work know when I am leaving and they are trying to get everything done NOW. So a word or two to them, specifically...
RELAX! There are other Technical Services managers that will be available while I am gone.
RELAX! If you have an open ticket it will still be worked on - after all it is ME going away not my entire team!
RELAX! i promise to consider coming back!
Then there is back to school. Which really means the end of summer camp. And while my kids have had a great time - neither one of them is an emotional about it as I am! It isn't so much Becca's camp at the gym that I get emotional about - sorry HOH in Canton - you girls are great! See ya MONDAY!!! It is the Cherokee County Outdoor YMCA that chokes me up. Stephen has been going for 6 summers now, and all I can say is THANKS!!! Thanks for making summers great. Thanks for helping my kid grow up - for being my community! Thanks for looking out for him and keeping him in positive places. Thanks for the experiences. I don't recall - I may have blathered on about the group of young adults that work there before - but if not, here are some special call outs...
Kristine - you rock!! Ice cream Friday was my pleasure!!! Lets do it again next year!!
Jenny - Thanks for keeping the lake safe - and for being a BFF!
David - You rock for making camp great!
Rob - KSU? OK, you rock anyway!
Daniel - You survived Survivor multiple weeks!
Ben C - Teen X wouldn't be the same with out you! Where where you for Ice Cream???
Ben - you were everywhere!
Will - While Stephen did 't mountain bike - he says you are GREAT!
Tom - Camp wouldn't be the same without you!! No matter what age, you have been there for Stephen through it all!!! ROCK ON WITH YOUR BAD SELF!!!
And, as you have to put the blame in the right place... Lets not forget Eric! Eric as the camp director got all of these great people signed up and committed! Eric Bullock rules the YMCA world in my eyes! If you ever get a chance to visit the Cherokee Outdoor YMCA facility - ask for him and tell him I sent you! Seriously - if you are ever afforded the chance to send your kids to Eric's camp - jump on it!! He runs a great summer day camp!!
So, with camp ending, that means school starts... shopping for back to school clothes, supplies and everything else you need to be an 8th grader or a first grader.
That is what is filling my days and nights! There is almost no time to plan... And, really, that is OK as I am on track for total chaos the weekend before like every other time I try and really plan... I should do something about it, but the reality is IF I get my lists knocked out we are golden! The big challenge is that we are not driving ourselves - so when the limo arrives, we gotta load up and go! No last minute run inside, no stopping at Target for one more of anything... What we have packed is what we will take...
Truth be told, if you told me I could leave in 4 weeks, I would be fine. If you told me it was 2 weeks I would be scared!! Lucky for us, I have 6 weeks to get it all done!! WAHOO!!!
