Lifes Like That

With the weekend fast approaching, my thoughts are once again geared towards the campsite.  But I honestly don’t think it’s going to happen this weekend.  My husband has to work Saturday morning.  Which means that we couldn’t leave until after dinner.  And the weatherman is calling for rain on Saturday and Sunday.  Camping in the rain is not my idea of a fun time.   So I may just have to find something else to do this weekend with the kids.  But those things happen and you got to roll with the punches.  Having said that, I am still hoping that the weatherman is pulling a funny one and the sun will come out beaming.  If this does happen, then we will definitely pack up and head out as soon as my husband gets home from work.

I’ll let you all know how this goes.

We live in a trailer park and I really got to tell you all that I absolutely hate living here. Maybe that is why I am constantly at my husband to move. Not only do we have some seriously snotty neighbors with bad kids, but the park owners won’t let us have anything fun in our yard for the kids. They are not allowed to have a pool (not even a wader) so they can’t have any pool toys either. I don’t think this is right as we pay our lot rent every month so we should be able to have anything we want on the lot. They claim to reason for this is because of the water consumption, but were not even allowed to have a pool even if we bring in our own water. I can’t wait until we get our own house with our own land so the kids can have their pool.

This afternoon my husband is getting off work early so he can go and pick up our brand new 2008 camping trailer.  Yeah!!  The kids only have a half a day of school (final day of school for the year) so when he gets home and they get home we are going to pack up the trailer and take off to the campsite.  The weather is extremely gorgeous out today and is suppose to be this nice for tomorrow as well.  So not only do we get to break in the new camper, but it will be a great weekend to do it.  I don’t know if we will end up staying tomorrow night as well.  We will just have to see how the weekend goes.  So I want to wish you all a super weekend and I’ll see you all around next week to let you know how the camping experience worked out this weekend.

Normally when I pick something to read it will be a historical romance novel of some sort. Last night I wanted something different to read, so I picked out a New York City travel magazine at the store. I have to say I was highly impressed with the articles that I read in it. I enjoyed the magazine so much that before I went to bed I had read this magazine from cover to cover. Normally I don’t really enjoy magazines, but this one surprised me. I enjoyed all the pictures and the articles and when the new issue comes out, I will definitely be making another purchase. But since my magazine has been read, I guess I’ll go find a novel to read tonight.

Finally after a month of trying, I am able to post that we did in fact go camping this weekend.  Well your probably wondering why I am able to post this on Sunday.  We had to come home early today as my son had a birthday party to go to today and I am posting this while I wait to go pick him up from the party.  Although we did get to go, the trip wasn’t really that great.  It was seriously cold and windy yesterday so you really couldn’t enjoy yourself outside.  And this morning it was raining so we packed up and left and bought breakfast on our way home.  But still it was nice to get away and the kids had fun.  I’m sure we will go out a few more times this summer and hopefully the next time the weather may be a little nicer for us.  But at least we finally got to go.

Finally after a month of waiting the camping trip is on!  Yeah!!  In a little while I will be headed to the grocery store to buy our groceries for our upcoming camping trip.  Then I will have everything packed by the time my husband gets home from work and we will be headed out.  By leaving tonight, we will get two days and nights in for this weekend.  We will then leave the campsite early Sunday morning to get back home in time for my son to go to a birthday party and for my husband and daughter to be able to deliver my father-in-law’s father’s day present (a barbecue).  After the party Daniel and I will head down to his house to break in the barbecue.  So I think it’s going to be an awesome weekend and for once the weatherman is going to co-operate with us.

This could be the first weekend that we get to go camping!  The bags are packed and tomorrow morning we will be packing the coolers.  As soon as the kids get home from school tomorrow we will be headed out to the campsite.  My husband is home on vacation this week so we decided to pull the kids out of school on Friday (sh….don’t tell the teachers) and we are going to head up one day early.  Hopefully the weather cooperates with us.  It’s supposed to.  Then we will be staying the entire weekend.

So if you don’t see me around much after tomorrow you will know the weather was nice to us.  But if I’m posting on the weekend then you know we have gotten rained out again.

My two younger kids are huge Disney fans. When I say huge, they have made us purchase every Disney movie that has come out on the market. So to go along with their Disney movie collection I would love to get them some Disney fine art prints. I think they would just go crazy if they could add Disney fine art prints to their collection.

I have just recently come across a site over at sandersartstudio.com where I would be able to purchase some pretty neat Disney pictures from artist Trevor Carlton. On September 20, 2008 he will be holding an art exhibit to showcase all his fine art work. At this showcase you have the opportunity to purchase original Disney paintings! This is such a huge event for any Disney lover or art collector. By ordering your event package in advance, you also get a free gift, and are able to have your guide signed by the artist himself.

So if your a Disney lover or have Disney lovers in your house, this is one event that your not going to want to miss!

The kids were a little disappointed because last weekend we were unable to go camping due to crappy weather.  But the great news is, is that the weather for this weekend is supposed to be warm and sunny so first thing tomorrow morning we will be headed out to the campsite.  We will only end up spending one night there this time, but at least we will be able to go for the first time this season.  Although it’s still too cold to go swimming, the  kids will still be able to play at the park, go to the drive-in movies and have their campfire.

So if you don’t see me around this weekend, now you know why.  Have a great weekend guys and I’ll see you all again on Monday morning.  I’ll let you know how our first camping trip turned out.

Now don’t get me wrong, going camping is probably my most favorite thing to do in life. It gets us all away from the house and gives the kids different opportunities and activities to get involved in. But there is one downfall to camping and that is how stuffy the air can get in our trailer. It’s not too bad during the day because we have all the screens open, but when the trailer is buttoned up for the night it can get a bit stuffy. So this year we have planned to get around this. We are planning on purchasing a couple of air purifiers to combat this problem. Once this *little* problem is taken care of, I can’t see any other issues that we may encounter on our first trip out for the season. But, nothing ever goes as planned so it wouldn’t surprise me if something else does come up.