Parenting Error #46

Over Christmas Break, Delaney wanted to have a friend spend the night.  Since Dan and Callie were gone, and the house was a little less crowded, I said yes.  Somehow that morphed into putting up the tent for a camp out in the yard with not one, but TWO friends.  The noise and chaos level may have gotten a wee bit out of hand.

Just put up the tent and she is excited!

This is a new tent, purchased on Amazon.  I bought it a few months ago, hoping it would arrive in time for Josh's camping trip with his dad, but it did not.  This is a great tent!  Nice and big.  The downside is that the top is mesh on two sides so you need the rain cover on all the time unless you want the breeze and sun to come in.  But it is a spacious tent!

I let them light up the fire pit, but no one wanted to go collect wood, so it was a sort lived fire, since we ran out of sticks pretty quickly!

They roasted hot dogs for dinner.

I was surprised how happy they were to eat hot dogs that were charred on the outside and cold in the middle.

And then there were s'mores.

Lots of s'mores!

And lots of fun.

Delaney had a marvelous time with her friends.  

They only made it outside till 9:30.  It was the coldest night we had had so far (like 65 degrees cold), so they said they were cold.  So they all slept on the living room floor.  On the plus side, they were asleep around 11pm, and they slept in past 7am.  IThe house and tent were a mess, but the kids had a good time and no one cried.