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a camping we will go...

well, it's almost time. we are leaving tomorrow morning to head south to portland for our first, family camping trip. pathetic, i know. when dave and i got married, we put all sorts of camping gear on our gift registry. we got sleeping bags, air mattresses, a tent, a camp stove... stuff like that. not to say we haven't used it - well, not the stove - but never at an actual camp site. we've done the backyard camping thing, just to appease shane a few times. the sleeping bags have been thoroughly used... even peed on and puked on a time or two. lovely, i know, but hey, that's life with kids.

i got the cool cookbook i ordered in the mail yesterday. i can't wait to try it out.
http://www.schallertel.net/~rmasters/


yay. meal plans without scrounging through a million cookbooks and trying to figure out what we can actually eat (before 5:30pm). one more aspect of daily life i'm trying to organize.

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  1. twinmommyAugust 31, 2008 at 4:40 PM

    We did the same thing with our gift registry... and we've used our stuff in an actual campsite once. When I was incredibly pregnant with the twins. Wonder why we haven't repeated that little scenario in nearly four years? :)

    We did get to use our camp stove and coffee pot when the power was out for a week a few years ago, though.

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