Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Buried Alive

Help! I'm being buried alive!

I've been missing in action for quite awhile now. Every once in awhile, I try to come back here and post something--I have ideas all the time of things to write about. Just no time to do it. So I'm just here long enough to say that, after camp, I will re-surface. I serve as the stake YW camp director and this time of year is crazy. Fun. But crazy. Here's what my days are like:
  • Planning for camp
  • Emailing about camp
  • Phone calls for camp
  • Brainstorming for camp
  • Shopping for camp
  • Pretending I'm listening when other people talk about something other than camp
  • Feeding my children
  • Promising my children I will make it up to them after camp
Nearly every night, I tiptoe into the bedroom between 12 and 1am and try not to disturb Eric, who is sleeping (and usually snoring). Then I toss-and-turn for quite awhile, eventually fall asleep, and dream about...do I even have to say it? One of my recent dream episodes included all of the following: our camp T-shirts were neon orange (they are, in fact, royal blue); my asst. director and I had to share a queen-sized bed at camp--bizarre; and last, I dreamed we finished our clean-up of the camp an hour early and there were 150+ people crammed into a sauna-of-a-cabin looking at me and waiting for me to give them something to do.

Following my after-hours return to the bedroom (we're back in my real world now), Eric gets up at some ghastly hour (I think 4:30) and kisses me on the forehead before departing. The sad thing is, I'm usually mildly awake and stewing again by that time.

See you after CAMP!
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  1. AmyJune 15, 2011 at 5:58 PM

    This SO reminds me of working on Youth Conference for the past 4 years (but not this year!! whoo hoo!) In the extending a calling interviews, I think they should ask, "Are you the kind of person that will literally lose sleep being in charge of this?" YES, YES!! I will!!!!!! I'll say a prayer for you--you'll be awesome, but extra prayers don't hurt.

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  2. the MomJune 16, 2011 at 4:58 PM

    Laughing out loud over this post! Especially loved the final dream scene you described -- so funny! :} Um, good luck! Jill P.

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  3. AftonJune 16, 2011 at 5:48 PM

    Bless you, bless you, bless you. So glad there are fabulous leaders like you who focus on all the details so that girl's camp will be an amazing, testimony building experience for our young women. I hope you have a massage scheduled for the week after. And a dinner out with Eric. And a pedicure.

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  4. NatalieJune 18, 2011 at 3:24 PM

    Thank you, my friends, for your comments. Sometimes it just helps to have people acknowledge your efforts and little sacrifices.

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  5. AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 10:48 PM

    I also, ROFLOLd at the last scene of your dream. (Normally, I would never type something so ridiculous for all to see, but I just had to after reading your last entry)

    Disclaimer: Unfortunately, the above is the epitome of hyperbole (ep-i-tome of hyper-bowl). While I did "laugh out loud," I was not "rolling on floor" at the time. ;)

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