This Is What Camping Without A Camera Looks Like

We went camping last Thursday to Glendalough State Park. I am not sure when I realized I had forgotten my camera but I think we still could have turned around and gone back for it. But we didn't. We just experienced camping. And canoeing. And family skinny-dipping in broad daylight. And giant marshmallows. And sleeping in the tent. (No camera could accurately capture how awful that part is, anyway.) We also didn't bring a DVD player for the drive. From our recent trip home from Kenora without one we were feeling pretty confident, and that was 6 whole hours. This trip was a baby 1 1/2 hours. Instead Harper brought the book she was reading, Harry Potter 4, and Margo brought the book she was reading, Harry Potter 5. Harper really was reading HP4. And Margo really should have been for how sincere she was about the whole thing. I've never wished more that she could read. (Must work on that.) The whole way home Margo kept turning the pages and asking me to turn around so I could see where she was: "Mom, look what chapter I'm on." And she would read the page number, if she could, which was supposed to be the chapter. When she recognized that she was flying through her book much faster than Harper she reconciled this fact by announcing, "I don't read the words. That's how fast I am." Meaning, that's why I can do it so fast. But I do like the literal translation quite a bit.

Help

I tried to sew these dresses but they turned out to be little disasters. Thanks to Grandma for rescuing them.

LOTFW

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LOTW 2014

 

Jumping

Finding Treasure

On the Dock

Sisters

Margo Swings

From Me to You

Halle and Jacob picked me, Margo, and Harper up on their way to K-town. Marc stayed behind to work before he joined us at the end of the week. I saw this moon one night and thought of Marc who loves the moon. I snapped these photos for him.

Catching Fish

I think Lucy caught one of these. After that, I have no idea who caught these fish.

Clearwater Bay: Turtle Island

My family met up in Kenora for a week. We went out to Clearwater Bay for some good old fashioned relaxation and Annie's baptism. The water is really high this year and the girls were all disappointed to find that Turtle Island, the place where they were planning to build things for fairies and leprechauns, was under water. Harper and Annie had given themselves code names, and wrote this note. 

Windows: 33

Here is a picture of our house with all 33 windows and three outside doors. By Harper.

Make

Harper really wants to learn how to sew. She wanted to sew something for her friends. We worked together and made a flag with one of her friend's favorite numbers on it, and a fox sleep mask for the other friend.