Camping
We went camping on Friday morning and got home tonight.
Ken and I quite despise camping...... Packing for a week, unpacking for another, sleeping on the ground, using bathrooms that are out house- ish, lugging coolers in and out of the van in the morning and night., having wet food from the ice, having to walk for 7 minutes to get to the shower, seeing raccoon prints on sweaters that are left outside, smelling like smoke, getting into a damp bed at 12am, sweeeeating in the humidity, having a screaming 2 year old at 2am because she was hot, over tired and her bug bite was itchy and she had a phlemmy chest, waking up at 6am which is way before the rest of the group and having to try to keep the kids quiet, cooking on a coleman stove, having muddy, smelly, sandy and sticky kids, finding half drunken drink boxes smushed in between air mattresses.... Shall I go on? (O:
But, Ken and I looove spending time with our kids and the extended Pennings family. What a blessing.... Sitting around the camp fire until midnight, watching the kids ride bikes and play silly games, watching the older cousins cuddle and love the younger ones, roasting marshmallows on the fire, swimming, playing volleyball, having discussions around the fire, laughing at family members as they chase raccoons away because they didn't put their food away, getting to know each other more and more -the good, the bad and the ugly, cuddling a little 5 week old Levi, watching a brother in law be a dad for the first time, sitting around the fire again in the morning as people try to wake up, sleeping in a tent with Ken, with the littles snoring at our feet, going to a completely different church than we are used to and worshiping with fellow believers, buying slushies from the little store.... Shall I go on? (O:
Good thing the second paragraph is bigger than the first! (o:
Some fun pictures to come another day!
Ken and I quite despise camping...... Packing for a week, unpacking for another, sleeping on the ground, using bathrooms that are out house- ish, lugging coolers in and out of the van in the morning and night., having wet food from the ice, having to walk for 7 minutes to get to the shower, seeing raccoon prints on sweaters that are left outside, smelling like smoke, getting into a damp bed at 12am, sweeeeating in the humidity, having a screaming 2 year old at 2am because she was hot, over tired and her bug bite was itchy and she had a phlemmy chest, waking up at 6am which is way before the rest of the group and having to try to keep the kids quiet, cooking on a coleman stove, having muddy, smelly, sandy and sticky kids, finding half drunken drink boxes smushed in between air mattresses.... Shall I go on? (O:
But, Ken and I looove spending time with our kids and the extended Pennings family. What a blessing.... Sitting around the camp fire until midnight, watching the kids ride bikes and play silly games, watching the older cousins cuddle and love the younger ones, roasting marshmallows on the fire, swimming, playing volleyball, having discussions around the fire, laughing at family members as they chase raccoons away because they didn't put their food away, getting to know each other more and more -the good, the bad and the ugly, cuddling a little 5 week old Levi, watching a brother in law be a dad for the first time, sitting around the fire again in the morning as people try to wake up, sleeping in a tent with Ken, with the littles snoring at our feet, going to a completely different church than we are used to and worshiping with fellow believers, buying slushies from the little store.... Shall I go on? (O:
Good thing the second paragraph is bigger than the first! (o:
Some fun pictures to come another day!
I so get you!!!! Love the time as family. Going to miss all the second paragraph and not much of the first one :) :) Next year should it be a ***** hotel? or even ****? even ***?
ReplyDeleteI guess this is what we will laugh about when we are old(er) lol.
Your sis-in-law Monica
Oh, the memories LOL!!! After at least 10 years, we 'get' to sleep in a tent and babysit three kids!! And, we're getting uncomfortably close to 60 LOL. You guys are spring chickens :-). You just gotta go with the flow when you go camping eh? And, the real memories are the second paragraph...the first paragraph fades pretty quickly. Glad you had a great time.
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