Littles

Our children love us to tell them stories!  We re-live many stories around the dinner table that have happened as a family.  Many of our favorite and most told stories have taken place while camping.

I have talked with many moms that say they will send their older ones with Dad to camp, but the baby or the toddler is just too hard to take camping.

Now there may be times when it is a short trip or an overnight trip to just send the older children (like this experience here we let the boys snow camp in the snow quinzee in our backyard and Momma and the girls snuggled into their nice warm beds)​​.  But had that been a longer trip and not just our backyard, we would not have wanted to miss out.​​

Would you want to miss out on all the great memories, bonding as a family and being apart of favorite family stories and memories if you don’t go?  Wouldn’t your children love to have memories of mom and baby being apart of some of their favorite memories and stories growing up?

If we could show you ways and helpful tips to camp well with littles would that help you?  Would it help you take the steps to go camping with your family?

​Most children love to camp and will thrive in that type of outdoor setting. But… camping with little ones is usually not a vacation and can be hard work. However, it is worth it for the whole family to be together making memories and having shared experiences.

​I admire my friend who went camping with her family at our church campout for the first time.  She has 4 boys and the littlest one was up all the first night.  She got no sleep…  those nights are really long!  But she made it, the coffee tasted extra good that morning, and the next night was better.  I am sure that she did not enjoy that first night at all and wanted to go home to her comfy bed for herself and her toddler.  But she and her husband came back from that trip and bought a pop-up camper because her children loved camping.  She is a wise woman!  Whether she likes camping or not after that first experience, she has made it a priority to keep her whole family camping together, and one day it will be easier.

​There are plenty of ways to get outside and enjoy nature daily from home which are very important, but there is nothing like having to spend the whole day outside with your family, away from all of the distractions of home and media, exploring and having fun together in an intentional way and then sleeping outside in a tent.  It creates bonds and memories that will last a lifetime.