life with baby

I don't have pictures to go with this post, but they will be coming.

Our family LOVES camping. And by camping I don't mean some trailer with all the amenities right out your front door. I mean full blown TENT camping, making dinner out in the wilderness, then curling up in your nice warm sleeping bags. And having kids have not stopped that for us. Our first summer fostering we went camping with Chance who was 18 months old, and our foster boy who was 25 months old. I think we went for 5 days. It was a lot of fun. 3 years ago we had Joe and Manny and went camping with Chance who was 3 and half, and Joe and Manny were 25 months. Last summer, we drove 15 hours to Quebec to camp for 2 weeks with a 4 year old and two 3 year old. We had a lot of looks, and "man you are crazy". but hey, even to this day they still talk about that trip. We went to two different sites about 3 hours apart so we could do some more exploring - so many lasting memories were created.

This year, we do not let having a baby stop us from camping! So this year year we packed our bags with a 5 year old, 4 year old twins and a 13 month old baby and off we went. We spent 8 nights at Algonquin, pure wilderness camping. Everyone thought we were crazy taking them to Algonquin at this age, but they loved it. We loved it, and it was worth it all.

We then packed up from there and drove 2 hours along Georgian Bay and stayed at KillBear provincial park for 7 nights. Again, it was AWESOME! We got some looks and some comments about how they would never take their young children camping, that it's too much work, that we should just "rent a cottage" or something. But in all honesty, it was a little bit more work then just staying home or going to some cottage somewhere. But I would not trade it for anything, ok, yes I would - to stay another week or two sleeping in my tent.

So camping with 4 young children = work. But it was worth everything to give our children that experience. I am planning on doing quite a few posts on our 16 day adventure because so much has happened. But right now, I've got about 10 loads of laundry to do, dishes to do, cakes to bake, children to pack up as we are going away for the weekend and leave in like 16 hours. Oh, and maybe get a Little bit of sleep before I have to go into work tonight!

And there will be many pictures comming soon. But right now, I've got work to do, so you will have to wait until Monday!