Off to Camp Crazy
We are just about ready to go gluten free camping for eight days. I’ve been in the kitchen precooking just about everything I can for lunches and breakfasts. Tomorrow I’ll be starting the bread baking. I might make hamburger buns, or I might just go buy some. The only one who cares about the hamburger buns is hubby. And I’m sure his parents will part with a normal gluteny hamburger bun or two for him.
Other than that, I’m done.
I’ve premade chili, meatloaf, taco meat, bacon, sausage and breakfast potatoes. I’ve bought cookies and scones. I found ginger snaps to use in place of graham crackers. I also scored in one store with some Kinnikinnick stuff – premade brownies and cinnamon rolls (YUM!) as well as some of their cinnamon sugar donuts. We’ve got pretzels, crackers and enough stuff from Frito Lay alone to survive for two days. I also have a few backup cans of Dinty Moore Beef Stew, which is gluten free. All this stuff doesn’t include the fresh food we’re going to get before we leave. Tri-tip, chicken, hamburgers, hot dogs, and all sorts of veggies and fruits. Oh yea, and the candy stash. Don’t worry. I’ll share.
Yep. I think we’ll be fine.
Now I need to figure out some stuff for the kids to do when they’re bored. We’re bringing some games. I might see if I can find some outdoor crafts. I was a Girl Scout through 6th grade. I seem to vaguely remember crafts and activities. Not enough to remember anything specifically though.
Normally we aren’t a crafty family. At all. You see, doing crafts requires sitting. My kids are more the swinging from the chandeliers types.
Thus, the blog name.
The Little Filly still doesn’t color. She says it’s SOOOO BOOOOORRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGG…..!!!!!! In kindergarten, when she had a page she had to color, she’d do a scribble of one or two colors in the middle. Done! My son (who is still nicknameless) doesn’t like sit down activities any more than his sister does.
But, after days (DAYS!) on end of nothing but playing in the dirt, the water and the woods, I’m pretty sure that there will be some sort of desperate boredom that will hit out of nowhere. Unless I’m prepared for it, it could get really ugly really quickly.
And because although I have a nice time camping, It’s definitely not my joy. By the time they’re bored, I’m definitely going to be bored.
I’m also worried about the sleeping. It’s not so much the tent thing. Because I usually sleep surprisingly well when we camp. It’s the location where we’re camping that’s worrying me. It’s up in the mountains and it’s supposed to be FREEZING up there. Okay. Not freezing, but highs in the mid 80s and lows in the upper 40s. WAY too cold for a sane person to be sleeping in a tent on an air mattress. The kids and I have a lot of layers of warm clothes to sleep in, so it should be fine. But there’s no way to tell until you’re in the middle of it, ya know?
If I don’t get enough sleep I’m a bear. Even with central heat and air, cable TV and high speed internet. So I’m praying that sleep will be good. As long as sleep is good, everything else should be fine.
