Busy Work Week

When I got to week on Tuesday night, there was a puddle of vomit on the floor of the hub, covered in the substance we use to help absorb wet messes, and awaiting clean-up. Several kids had already gone home sick, and the girl who had decorated the hub floor was waiting for her parents to get her. Before all of the kids were in bed, another kid puked on the basketball court. This wasn't an auspicious beginning to my work week.

The following night, a kid crapped himself, or at least partially crapped himself, meaning that some of it got to its intended destination and some of it got on his clothes. This is the second week in a row that I had to turn on the showers in the middle of the night and then do laundry. It has been chilly too.

Beyond that, I've been faced with the expected types of camper problems, like homesickness, broken glasses, chapped lips, headaches, and an earache. Next week, we'll have at least 50 kids more than this week. There is definitely some sort of illness making the rounds right now.

At home, Jeanine found a neat spider in one of the kitchen drawers. It looks like Zoropsis spinimana, a European invasive species. It now lives in the ferns out front.