Band camp is officially a thing of the past in this house

By 7:00 this evening, Andrew and I had returned home from serving dinner at band camp.  For a variety of reasons, this band camp was the toughest we've had.  Part of it was that I am currently working.  Part of it was that we had to be upstairs, which meant lots of up and down.  Part of it was lots of other roadblocks during the week.  Part of it was COVID, and part of it was just that we are two years older than last time.  We were absolutely exhausted when we got home, but I was so, so excited about being finished.  Because being finished this evening meant being finished...for all time!

Thomas got home just about an hour ago.  That means band camp is officially over for this year, and officially over for this family.  This is our eighth marching band season which included seven band camps.  Whether they went away or stayed at our school, it was a tremendous amount of work and stress for me.  There are many things I will miss about not having kids in high school. Band camp in any form is not one of them!