Our girls (CITs) made it through one of their biggest tests/challenges: the "unsupervised" overnight. We camped out at Sewanee (Univ. of the South), but I cannot say that it went down without a hitch.
Halfway there, my co-director and I realized that we had left the girls' medicine, but luckily, someone was able to bring it to us. And in the midst of unpacking the vans, one of our Coleman lanterns hit the ground, and the hurricane shattered into a million pieces. Then later that night, there was a snake in the girls' sleeping area. And in the midst of moving their things, one girl was stung by a wasp, and another dislocated her shoulder, resulting in a midnight trip to the hospital. Our fearless director drove up and retrieved her and brought her back to camp. And around 3am, a giant tree branch fell about two feet from our tent; had it hit us directly, I believe I would currently be wearing a cast and sporting a number of bruises and cuts. Needless to say, we didn't sleep well.
It was a night for the books! Even with all of the craziness and challenges of being a CIT mom, I am absolutely loving my position. It's still an adjustment from my previous experiences with younger girls. It's difficult to let them make mistakes when I could so easily just do things for them. But maybe that's a bit what it's like to be a parent.
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