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Nov. 6, 2006
Confession... camping in the rain not so fun this year.
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At least not for me! Maybe the reason it has taken me a month to get back to this blog and finish our camping story is that THIS year was not as enjoyable as LAST year... at least not to this Mom. Last year, though it rained more, it was warmer. Last year, I had to keep telling EE to put on her shoes, but not because I was concerned about her being too cold. This year it wasn't raining as much but it was COLD. Cold + Wet = No Fun for Mom! The kids still managed to have a great time. Our Youth Pastor and his wife took some of the teens to a local outlet mall for several hours on Friday afternoon. I think part of the thinking of that was to get their baby out of the wet and cold. Maybe I should have gone with them. JP had wanted to go to the mall with the other teens, but got accidently left behind. Despite that, he still had a good time playing some sort of capture the flag type of games with the middle schoolers and elementary kids. And then a few of his other friends that had school on Friday showed up later in the evening. I however, spent a lot of time hovering under the canopy with a diet hot cocoa or trying to get warm by the fire they were able to keep going. I called my husband and told him that he and JL should just stay home. I might be joining them later that day. By mid-afternoon on Friday I had decided that EE and I were going to go home. JP helped me take down one of our tents (his wet one) and we packed up. EE didn't want to go home at first so I decided we would stay until after the hot dog roast and devotional. By the time that was done, about 9:00 pm, she was ready to go home too! Both of us were COLD. The twins stayed with the group and came home with Brett, our youth pastor, mid afternoon on Saturday. However, Brett's wife and baby got a ride home with friends that had come down for the evening to have dinner with us. When we got home Friday night, I had EE take a nice long warm bath. I wanted my baby warmed to the bones before she went to bed that night! Then I took a nice hot shower and slept in my nice warm DRY bed. But who got a cold? Me. Yup, I got a cold. I have been over it for awhile but still have a nagging cough. I am not so sure that I will want to go camping next year with our church camp-out if it is raining again, but then again in a year the fun memories of my kids may over shadow my not so warm memories. I am hoping that it won't possibly rain a third year in a row! We HAVE to be due for a nice weekend!
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