The Happy Campers

Well, I was worked up for no reason!  My younger brother invited my family to go camping with him, his wife and his three kids.  Growing up we were constant campers - not your traditional tent or camper type either, we were lean-to extreme back woods campers.  My brother has a trailer and a nice tent for the kids, so this is by no way roughing it.


That being said, in the last two years, every new experience that Alison embarks on scares me to my core.  I am mentally and physically more than equipped to handle an outdoors adventure much harder than the one we were going on, but I was so timid.  What if she's hypo all weekend from running around with her cousins?  What if she runs high all weekend and I can't really justify letting her have marshmallows around the campfire?  What if she's hypo in the middle of the night?  She wakes up with night terrors when she's low at night...she'd wake the whole park up!!!


In the end, Ali's BGLs were a little all over the place.  She did have a hooking incident on the playground that lead to a set change.  But she slept in the tent with my 7 year old niece Trin, my nephew Tristan and my brother.

We ended up having to come home early (Saturday evening) because Riley was really under the weather which was a real dissapointment to everyone except Riley, who seemed happy to be in her own bed.

I cannot wait to get Ali back out to the campsite.  I now also realize that Camp Banting is a real possibility in four years! 

Thanks go out to my hubby and my brother for convincing me to go out even though I was anxious about camping - I realized how much I missed it and how much fun it was for my girls.