Camping

My children think they love to camp. I view camping more as too much work for the little amount of fun it brings. It is fun to be outside and getting away from everything, but it also brings so much work. I probably need to change my attitude, but that is where it is right now. I am working on attitude changes in other departments and this one is near the bottom of my list.

My children occasionally ask if we can go camping and finally last night Evan gave in. We have tried to go camping over the last year and with a new baby and this and that it just hasn't happened. So, last night Evan pitched the tent in the back yard and we camped out. It took about 20 minutes of set up and the kids really had a good time. All 7 of us piled into our tent and slept in sleeping bags. Camie, Danielle, and Spencer really enjoyed seeing the stars. It was pretty hot and we were all tired. Taneal and Evan were the sensible ones and fell asleep pretty fast. The rest of us had a hard time. Nathan was up at least every hour or so the whole night. But I had agreed to camping so I stayed the whole night. Would an attitude change have helped Nathan sleep better?

Around midnight Evan finally got up and went inside. Funny boy considering this was his idea. But, we camped, had an hour or more of clean-up, and hopefully the kids were satisfied. I don't think I let on to the kids that camping is not my thing right now when there are so many other jobs to be done. They seemed to really have a good time and I am glad we did it.