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Howdy! Hope you are having a smashing week!

We are preparing to go camping.. in the midst of one of THE busiest times I’ve ever encountered - we are throwing it all to the wind and going camping 4 hours away! :S

This is the very first time we’ve been camping with the kids - read - in 8 years and it should be tons o’ fun! We have a mini tent city - a double tent with tunnel connector and boot lockers - one sider will be zip tied shut so as to thwart any mid night strolls on the part of the kids (8 & 4) and we will be in the other side.

When Hub & I got married 5 years ago, we had already been together for 4 years, so we had everything - everything but camping gear so we registered at Canadian Tire (BEST thing we’ve ever done!) and scored LARGE! Sleeping bags, lanterns, deluxe cutlery set, Tfal camping pots and so much more!! We’re finaly putting it all to good use!

We are heading to Bon Echo Provincial Park and will be there from Friday morn to Monday aft.. with a four hour drive to and fro..

We have the camp meals planned, breakkie, lunch, dinner, s’mores.. (notice s’mores is in it’s own category ) we are airing out the tent city as we speak and we’ll be washing the sleeping bags and getting all the rest prepped before we leave.. all this I expected..

What I did not expect was the planning and last minute rush of tying up loose ends.. deadlines still need to be met and clients still need to be taken care of and what’s worse about this is about 5 biz days after we come back - we’re leaving again for another week at our annual cottage!

I can tell some of my clients are less than superbly excited for me and a part of me wishes that I could stay and work, but I need this regroup you know?! With all the stress and financial disaster heading our way we have to hunker down and prepare.. that means budget vaca followed by free (paid for by Grandma) vaca.. time away..

I am truly looking forward to the binding I will have with my itty bitties - something we have not had in a while and that in itself is worth that dreadful feeling I get when I prepare myself to tell yet another client I am on my way to vaca..

Where are you going this year for vaca? How do you prepare and what are your fave memories of your own family vaca?! Do tell..

See you soon!!
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