Gervais’ Famous Meatloaf Serves 8 Ingredients: Meatloaf: 3.25 lbs. Lean Ground Beef 1⁄2 cup Bread Crumbs 3 Eggs 1⁄4 cup Milk 1 cup Yellow Onions, dic...
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Camp Recipe: Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes
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4 Things to Do When You're Missing Camp
If you saw last week’s announcement, you know that this summer is going to look a little different for us all. Camp will be quiet and instead of comin...
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June Camp Opening Day
Welcome to “Camp” everyone! Thank you for caring enough about Greystone to read the blog, it shows that you are a “fanatic” and we could not be more e...
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Junior Camp Closing Day
Today is Closing Day for Junior Camp 2020! For all of you who would have just finished your first ever session at Greystone, you would be anxiously wa...
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A Letter to Our Main and August Campers
Dear Main and August campers, Phew. Yesterday was a hard day, wasn’t it? It was a tough one in Tuxedo too. Hard as it was, we were completely overwhel...
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Greystone Cancels All Sessions
This week would have been the kick-off of our 101st summer. Right now, we should have been in the middle of Junior Camp, hearing squeals and laughter ...
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Camp Recipe: Taco in a Bag and Sprinkle Cookies
Taco in a Bag Check out our Instagram for videos to walk you through it step by step! Ingredients: 1 lb ground beef 1 Diced Onion 1 pack Taco Seasoni...
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Junior Camp Opening Day
Hello Greystone Junior Campers, and welcome to the Opening Day of Junior Camp! Though nothing is going to compare to being together in Tuxedo, we’ve c...
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Camp Trends to Bring into the Real World
Camp has a way of sticking with us in unexpected ways. The feeling of having a camp song stuck in your head but no one to sing it to might be a famili...
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2020 Summer Song Requests
It’s that time of year again! The days are getting longer and we are feeling it in our bones that it is almost time to dance every minute of the day -...
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Catching up with our Camp Pigs
While life has been throwing most of us some pretty crazy changes, some of Greystone’s residents are still up to their normal routines. Who am I talki...
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10 Camp Lessons for a Pandemic
We’re living through an unprecedented time right now. This pandemic has thrown everyone off - no one thought this is what 2020 was going to look like!...
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Little Known Facts about Your Favorite Camp Horses
I think some of the biggest misunderstandings with horses come from when we try to project our own feelings and communication styles on them - they ju...
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10 Creative Outdoor Activities to do Today
Needing some new and fun things to do outside today? Check out these camp-inspired outdoor activities that require very few supplies and materials:
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What The Parent Trap Got Right about Camp - and What It Got Wrong!
As some folks might know, I’m not a life-long Greystone girl! Although as I like to say, I got here as soon as I could. I’m coming up on nine summers ...
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Crowdsourced Tips for Online Learning
Over the last couple of months our whole country has transitioned to this new world of online learning, and gosh has it been an adjustment! Anyone els...
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Cooking with Solveig: Quarantine Cake
As a child, I really didn’t ever need to eat cake. The icing really threw me off. Is there something everyone else loves that you can live without? ...
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Table Topics for when You're Stuck at Home
For better or for worse, I’m a huge fan of conversation-starter questions. Many a Head Staffer has decided they immediately need to take a trip to the...
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An Open Letter to Our Main and August Campers
Dear Main and August campers, How is everyone doing?? Our announcement last week affected every person in our camp community. Obviously Junior and Jun...
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A New Devotion from Sandi: Dealing with Disappointment
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13:12 Crushed. When I asked my daughters how they would f...
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So Your Session Got Canceled? Here's How to Stay Connected to Camp This Year (and a survey!)
It hasn’t even been a week since we announced that we had to cancel Junior and June Camps, and we bet you’re still reeling a little bit. What does thi...
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Taking a Break - New Camper Blog Series
Hello New Camper Families! It’s another Tuesday, which means another week in our New Camper Blog Series. It has been a difficult week at camp after ou...
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To Our Junior and June Campers: What Your Directors Want You to Know
Dear Greystone Girls, First of all, how are you doing? You have been heavy on our hearts and minds this last week. We wish we could give you a big hug...
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Greystone Cancels Junior and June Camps
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the cancellation of our Junior and June Camps for this summer. We have emailed all of our camp families with ...
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New Camper Sparks - New Camper Blog Series
Hello New Camper families! We hope you had a wonderful Easter with your families, even if your celebration may have looked a little bit different this...
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Quarantine Advice from Your Favorite Counselors
Life has turned topsy-turvy for most of us in the last month, and if you’re anything like us, you’ve experienced every emotion in the book… sometimes ...
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Cooking with Solveig: Norwegian Waffles
One of the highlights of this crazy quarantine time? We’re all cooking a little more at home, and spending the time we wouldn’t have before to make me...
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Greystone Zoom Backgrounds to Download
You may have never downloaded Zoom before this, but we bet you’ve used it at least once now that social distancing is in effect. Here at camp we’ve mo...
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Awards, Honors, and Patches - New Camper Blog Series
It’s Tuesday once again, which means another week of our New Camper blog series. We are sharing detailed blogs on topics specifically geared towards o...
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Catch Up With the 2019 Dog Camp Puppies
You know them, you love them! See where our furry friendly pals are now!
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