We survived another band camp week

I am always grateful when band camp week wraps up.  Honestly, there are few weeks as physically exhausting as band camp week.  I am incredibly grateful that I had so much help from Andrew this year.  Him not coaching football is wonderful!

I began preparing for band camp last week by doing some shopping, and things revved up Monday.  I reported to the high school just after Noon on Monday.  Andrew came up to help with some chores, and then I spent some time working on paperwork and running some band errands.  Andrew came back up to help get things ready for dinner, and a few others joined us for serving.  I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to be home around 6:30 that evening!  Our friends from Missouri came to town (they are visiting family) and we had dinner together.

Tuesday I was up on the road early for a doctor appointment.  The kids had swim practice first thing that morning.  Andrew and I left a little after Noon to head to the high school again.  We iced down drinks and prepared a couple of things for dinner, and I was very happy to be heading out the door after only being there an hour.  That is when a young lady passed out, and Andrew rushed to help.  This young lady has been having some health issues.  I contacted the mother, and an ambulance was called.  It was decided to transport her to an emergency room just to be on the safe side.  We were again out the door, although another hour had passed.  I needed to head to the church office to get a few things accomplished, and then I ran some more errands for band.  We were back at school to serve dinner and clean up, as well as get as much together as we could for the next day.

Wednesday our family was out the door by 6:30am for swim championships.  We got back home at 1, and Andrew and I were out the door forty-five minutes later to go ice down the drinks.  We got home by 3:30 and were out the door again around 4:15.  Andrew went to pick up the subs we were having for dinner, and I went to the high school to make sure everything else was ready.  Andrew let us know he found out that our subs weren't cut, which meant we had some serious work to do before we could serve!  The place had also not sent any condiments along, so we had to go get some.  It ended up being a long evening, and I was exhausted.  Thank goodness Thursday morning we could sleep in!

I woke up feeling absolutely lousy.  Thankfully, I didn't have to be anywhere until I needed to head to the school at 12:30.  It was a fairly easy day, and Andrew met me up there to ice the drinks.  I came home and did band paperwork most of the afternoon.  Dinner went off without a hitch, and I'm so grateful for the other parent volunteers who helped out.  We were able to clean up fairly quickly, and I got almost everything put back in place.  I was so happy to walk out this evening, and to know we had made it through band camp week!