I don't seem to learn from my mistakes. Last year we went to camp for Memorial Day weekend with a 1.5 yr old and a 2 month old. It was miserable and there were many times I wanted to just go home (which is only 20 minutes away from the campground). This year we did it with a 14 month old and a 2.5 year old. Different ages. Same story. What is wrong with me? First of all we had mice in our camper that we THOUGHT were cleaned out. (see this post). On Friday night, James turned on the heat and it wasn't blowing out the ducts and made the entire camper stink. No heat for the night meant that noone slept well and the girls woke up cold at 5:45 am. James spent an hour cleaning out one of the ducts and realized that the other 2 were clogged as well. This meant that naptime was interrupted so James could tear the camper apart for the afternoon (since our morning was already busy doing something else). No baby mice were found, but the nests were fairly large and difficult to get to. The job took him ALL afternoon. Catie got a decent nap at my parents' cabin and Lydia slept off and on in her stroller. It was a hot day, too, and that didn't help with attitudes. (Mine or the girls'.) Saturday night, with the heat working, we slept very nicely...until.....5:45am. This time it was the dog with his face in Catie's, needing to go out. Once she was awake, so was Lydia and the rest of us. UGH!! dumb dog! Lydia ended up sleeping from 7-9am and then again while at church, and again that afternoon...she was exhausted. We decided to skip Catie's nap (crazy, i know) since my parents were having a picnic that afternoon. We just figured we'd put her to bed extra early or we'd just simply head home that night after the picnic. It didn't work that way. I know...none of you are surprised. At about 7pm she fell alseep on Grandma's couch while reading books. That lasted about an hour and eventually we decided that she would spend the night at Grandma and Grandpa's house (they are the camp caretakers/managers and live on the campgrounds). We packed up the next morning and headed for home. Family Camp is coming up in a month and we have decided that we might not be there for the entire 10 days. It's too rough to try to do that with such small children. We'll go up for the weekends and the girls and I will spend the days there while James is working, but sleeping there for 10 days is out of the question.
We did enjoy some time around the campfire and at the playground while there, so I guess it wasn't all a waste.
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