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First Camping Trip With My Son

November 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Post contributed by Martha Case
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The week my son turned four years old, I took him camping for the first time. I don’t think he even knew what camping was at the time, but I could tell he was very excited to go when I told him about it. First we went to the store to go pick out some supplies to use. My son is admittedly pretty smart for his age, and he actually caught on pretty quick. He was helping me choose items to bring with us, and while some of them seemed kind of random, he did a decent job for the most part.

So after we got all of our supplies we headed home to get them all organized and packed up. We made sure the cats had plenty of food to last them through the weekend, I set the SecurityChoice home security alarm, and we were off to our camping trip.

I took him to a local camping grounds that was actually only a few minutes from home. It is a beautiful park with trails that go back into a thick forest, a pond where you can fish at, picnic areas with BBQ pits, and a recreation center. We stayed there all weekend and had a blast. I taught him to fish and we saw a lot of cool wildlife back in the forest trails too.
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That sounds totally awesome – love it! 🙂

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Mosaic Tiles

November 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment

I’ve always loved the artwork that people create in their homes using mosaic tiles. I just have always loved that look and think it is so gorgeous!

We decided, at one point, to do the kids bathroom with fish-themed decorating. And it was all really colorful. Not like when people do nautical themes, but, more along the lines of Nemo-colorful, you know?

Mark – my contractor husband – told me at that time, that I should change out the bathroom tiles to mosaic tiles. He thought that I would be perfectly capable of doing so and that it would turn out great. I did not agree in regards to my skill set and never tried it. One day I’ll try it on something, though, maybe on a smaller scale to start out with. And I’m sure it will be abstract. He thought I could make cute little fish! That crazy man.

I know exactly what would have happened – I would have started and he would come in there correcting me and eventually just taking over. Hmm…that is one way to get him to do what you want, now, isn’t it? Ha!

For our fishy bathroom, though, it would be really cute if he would put up some subway tiles in a few shades of blue. I think that would look great! He could put some really pretty bright blue on the bottom half and then a lighter shade of blue for the top half. That would look cool!

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