The Wilderness Family

When I was a kid we had this movie called "The Wilderness Family" and it was about this family who lived in the city and did the crazy, busy city life and traffic and all of that. Well, one day they decided that they had had enough and they packed everything up and moved to the country where the air was no longer smog filled and there was grass instead of pavement and mountains instead of sky scrapers. They learned to rough it and live off the land and built their house with their own two hands. I'M ABOUT TO GO THERE! This weekend we will become the wilderness family. We will leave our city streets for what I pray is a nice, SOFT spot of land by the lake. We will trade in our warm, comfy, though somewhat disheveled house for a one room tent - we WILL put it up with our own two hands. We will trade barking neighborhood dogs for grizzly bears and cougars. Okay, okay, okay - I'm kidding! But we are venturing out into the great outdoors this weekend to go camping. Yikes! Tyler's first camping trip:) As we have been getting our stuff together and making a grocery list and such, I feel the need to expound on some things that I don't think that the wilderness family took with them in the movie:

1) Fixins for S'Mores
2) An off the ground frame for their blow up bed
3) Chips Ahoy cookies
4) Ant Poisoning
5) Pre cut fire wood
6) An Electric griddle for pancakes in the morning
7) Lighter fluid - we will try not to let Tyler get a hold of this!
8) A Piece of lovely outdoor carpenting for everyone to wipe their feet on so they don't track into the tent! I'm a stickler for dirt!

More on this trip later...