Tent Practice, Take One

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. "
-Franklin P. Jones

I spent part of every summer as a child camping.  But then I married Scott.  Scott had less than no interest in camping.  Every time I suggested camping, he nixed the idea immediately.  But this past Fourth of July (probably out of pity for me, as I was very depressed to be child-less on the Fourth), he decided we should go camping.  After I got over the initial shock, we headed to the store, geared up, and headed out for what turned into a rather nice weekend in the woods.

It only took 17 years of knowing me to change his mind.  Still, that time frame does ensure one thing - our kids have never spent a single night in a tent.  That should change this upcoming weekend when we head out for a camping trip, but the kids are anxious to try out our new camping equipment.  So anxious, in fact, that when their cousins came over last night for a sleepover, they talked me into putting up the tent.  In the living room.

So they still need to practice sleeping outside, but they have in fact conquered the sleeping in a tent bit.  Well. Sort of.  They didn't actually sleep until after 2AM.  But it was a sleepover, after all!