I found this recipe two days before our camping trip in a Country magazine at the library…it sounded fantastic so we zipped over to the grocery store and bought the ingredients. Turned out to be even more delicious than I hoped! And perfect for fixing ahead and packing the canned goods along to add at the [...]
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Campsite Kettle Beans with Bacon and Mushrooms
Published by June 23rd, 2008 in Cooking and Food and Homemaking and Vacation. 0 CommentsBig Families: The Outsider’s Scoop
Published by June 19th, 2008 in Cooking and Food, Family Ties, Home Schooling, Life and Parenting and Vacation. 14 CommentsAs promised, my gleanings from three days spent with a super-mom of six!
Some may consider a family with six children smallish, especially when contrasted with broods of ten-sixteen…but in my book, six is big. Consider the conversation I had the other night with friends at the pancake feed benefit for my s&bil. I was surprised [...]
So my hubby springs his vacation plans on me during the week of the stomach-flu from you-know-where (or was it salmonella from tomatoes? we’ll never know…). I had one week to prepare for a 1500 mile round trip camping vacation. Joy! Here I was just thinking we were fortunate to get healthy [...]
Mega-cooking for Camping Trip
Published by July 5th, 2007 in Cooking and Food and Mega Cooking and Vacation. 3 CommentsWhen I mention campsite cooking, I get the same response from almost everybody:
“When I’m on vacation, I don’t want to cook!”
So don’t cook while you’re on vacation, cook ahead of time, like I did, and let your husband do the grilling and reheating! Honestly, our biggest worry was keeping ice in the coolers, the meal-fixing [...]
Patriotic Car Songs
Published by June 29th, 2007 in Parenting and Patriotism and Vacation. 7 CommentsI worked hard on our vacation scrapbook yesterday, determined to finish it up this week, and guess what I’m printing off online right now? Yes, my post title kind of gives it away: Patriotic songs.
You see, they were a big part of my childhood traveling days, before portable dvd players became necessities, when families learned [...]
Needles Highway And Other Sight-Seeing We Enjoyed
Published by June 28th, 2007 in Vacation. 5 CommentsWe saw Mount Rushmore, even walked the new (to me) Presidential Trail and stayed for the Ranger’s Program at 9 PM. Patriotic and inspiring don’t even do it justice…but interestingly, my favorite part of our trip found us meandering the switchbacks and tunnels and granite spires of Needles Highway. If you ever go to the [...]
South Dakota weather won us over…cold at night, chilly in the morning and evenings, and hot during the day. Lovely for camping to be able to snuggle down deep into your sleeping bag, and enjoy hot chocolate w/marshmallows first thing in the morning.
This is my youngest daughter and myself on our second morning, note all [...]
After harrowing t-storms the night we set up our tent, we woke up to crisp clean air, sunlight filtering through pine trees and no mud to speak of! (Big sigh of relief from this mama!)
We decided to eat a quick breakfast (I think it was Jessica who recommended buying those small boxes of very sugary [...]
We arrived home around midnight Thursday from our South Dakota camping trip! Friday was a blur of unpacking and at least six loads of laundry, hosing out three coolers, chasing away the house-webs that took over during our absence, getting umpteen rolls of film developed…etc.
Yesterday was more laid-back…we three girls worked on our individual photo [...]
