Alternate title: I left my spirit in San Diego.
I’ve been home for over two days now and while I’ve settled back into my home routine again, everything still feels a little off.
Part of the problem is that summer camp ended last Friday for Cordy and Mira. Why the summer programs in our city choose to end two and a half weeks before the start of school is unknown to me, but it’s intensely frustrating when you work and have to find childcare coverage for that short period of time.
Mira is attending another camp for just this week, at a premium cost of course. Which leaves Cordy at home with me during the day, while I try to get enough sleep to function at work that night. Cordy has learned how to operate the remote control to choose cartoons to watch on Netflix, and so our routine involves me napping on the couch while she reads books and watches TV and wakes me up for lunch. Not perfect, but it works. Next week will be a different story.
I’m still processing so much from my trip to BlogHer. New connections were made. Old friendships were reaffirmed. I spent time in a city where the weather is always perfect and the air is light and humidity-free. I danced until my feet ached and laughed until my sides hurt. And I cried when I had to leave all of these wonderful people so that we could return to our different parts of the world.
Now I’m home, still too tired and too busy to unpack, and feeling lost in the mundane activities of my life.
More to come when the jet lag wears off from my soul.
I feel “off”, too. Hope I recover in time for BlogHer ’12! haha
I’ve been so exhausted. I can’t seem to recover. And I wasn’t even up late at night. Man.
You look great in your pictures! Good job on the weight loss!
Glad you had fun at Blogher ’11!
About the lag in summer camps..perhaps things run totally differently out your way, but…where I live, in Virginia, camps rely heavily on teachers for staffing. Most teachers start back to their school-related duties about 2.5 weeks before the students start back.
It is a problem for parents. Ironically, it’s annoying for us teachers, too…we end up having to do a lot of professional development and continuing ed (unpaid, natch) during the summer and we need care for our kids, too.
Anyone who manages to field a camp that covers that gap is invaluable.
I hope to be able to go to BlogHer eventually. I’m just getting comfortable blogging, but I’m not quite ready to be less anonymous. Looks a lot of fun, though!
Me, too…and I’ve been home a week.