Camping Preparation for the Clueless
Yes…the city family is headed for the woods for 5 days to celebrate my Little Man turning 5. We are all seriously looking forward to escaping the city & its inhabitants for a few days.
My goals in packing…
1. Try to be techno free for a week. (Which means I will probably get 400 orders, my husband’s sites will all crash, and I will be contacted via e-mail that I’ve won 1,000,000,000 dollars.)
2. Try to avoid disposables within reason.
3. Try to not eat pure canned crap for a week. (A little can 0′ crap perfectly acceptable.)
4. Try not to embarrass ourselves too much. (Kinda out of my hands, but…)
So the question is…what to bring for a week of woodsy survival? I have so many questions. What can be cooked over the campfire? How does one clean a fish? How do you know which ones are safe to eat? 
(I’m guessing a third eye indicates a “no” on the edibility scale.) And most importantly, would it be wrong to tell my children that squabbling attracts bears?
(Okay…we are staying in a cabin with running hot water, a fridge, stove, etc….but we will NOT have a doorman….you heard me…NO doorman…so it is technically roughing it. Don’t judge. Baby steps.)
No Doorman! Oh, the horror;-) I wish I had a photo of my eldest the first time I took her backpacking. She told me she had to go poo and I handed her a shovel. Priceless….
Hope you all have fun.
Aww! That sounds like fun. Hope you had a fun time. Any step toward camping is a good step. The only thing we haven’t been able to make is baked goods, although I hear there are recipes for no bake cookies I might have to try out.