Halloween Camping Trip

Ten things I learned this weekend

10. I LOVE grass. Did you know that grass is a great buffer for keeping your son from kicking dirt?

9. I also love my bed.

8. Nathan can't hang with the older kids. He gave it a good American boy try, but it put him into a 14 hour comma. The poor kid slept for 14 hours last night.

7. Campfires smell great until you get home and everything smells like a campfire.

6. Raccoons fight like cats.

5. You must invested in a good sleeping bag!

4. I didn't know mosquitos got so big. I thought I was going to have to tie Nathan down so the mosquitos wouldn't carry him away.

3. My kids would rather play in the van than the woods.

2. Wild pigs like breakfast too.

1. Coming home a day early was the best idea EVER!

The kids got to dress up for Halloween but Alex said to me today, "please don't make us go camping on Halloween again".

I had a good time until about 4 pm yesterday. We have a set routine which we are flexable but Nathan didn't get enough sleep. How could he with so much going on. Lack of sleep leads to tired kids. Tired kids + Whining + Defiance = Packing up to go home. The kids weren't even happy playing on a playground yesterday. They kept asking when are we going home. Why stay if everyone is not having a great time? All three kids fell asleep on the way home and Nathan didn't woke up until morning. He didn't eat dinner and slept for 14 hours. I would say he was exhausted after only 24 hours of fun.

We did get to see a million stars, alligators, dear, a mama racoon with three babies, a wild pig, vultures, a snake, bass, two rosette spoon bill birds in flight, and lots of undeveloped Florida landscape.

Comments

The Fo'Zaglia's said…

This kids look cute. Where did you camp? It's nice to try something different and now you know:)

November 3, 2008 at 1:01 PM

Lucky Saint Patrick's Day!

Ada you will love this... Madison loses her tooth yesterday on the way home from school. I am so excited, I take a picture as soon as she gets out of the van and post it everywhere and email it to family. I clean it off and put it in a zip lock (easier to find under the pillow, right?) and we tuck it under the pillow and we all, ALL fall asleep. Madison wakes up at 5:30 AM and says to me, "I can't see if the tooth fairy left me anything". PANIC stricken. I FORGOT THE TOOTH FAIRY JOB! Okay this is my only job on earth. I can't remember to exchange cash for a baby tooth. I send her to the couch and tell her it is too early that she has to try and go back to sleep. I grab Marks elbow and he says to me, "it is only 5:30". He was awake and heard her too. We both lay in silence for 30 minutes hoping she falls asleep. Funny thing is once we talked to each other thirty minutes later, both of us were in bed formulating a plan. He wanted to sneak out our

Mohawk!

Um, where to start? I went away for the weekend with girlfriends to get some R & R and scrapbook. Little did I know I was going to come home to a Mohawk. GO RAYS! I think Nathan is loving the attention that comes with such a dramatic do. I really can't believe Mark did such a crazy thing. I don't think anyone that saw Nathan at church could believe it either. For all you wondering, I love it and I will go away on another girls weekend. It's not like he gave all the kids a mohawk. The girls still have their lovely locks.

Time

Yes, my topic again is about time. This one is not about the waste of time, but the passing of time. As in how long it has been over a period of many days, years, etc. Saturday night I went scrapbooking at a friends house. Something we have done for about two years! WHAT? Two years, at least once a month. Where did that time go? I feel like it was just yesterday that Meagen and I where going to Anita's. At the time if you would have told me my scrap buddy was moving in the matter of months to Fuquay-Varina I would have said two things, "Where in the world it that?" and then I would have said "yeah, right!". She probably would have said the same things at the time. I now see it all as a God wink. Most of you have been to a Women of Faith conference and have heard the term God wink. I appreciate all the God winks in my life. See, at the time I didn't know Anita except from an occasional candle party or birthday party. We were aquanitices at the

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