Our first travel trailer. I don't remember camping much with my family as a kid. This is likely because we always had the same vacation destination: a family plot in Baldwin, MI. There was no cabin there. Instead, there were two structures: a small, silver camper and an old single-wide trailer. The silver camper is gone but the single-wide still sits there and is used by extended family members to this day. It wasn't until I was a teenager that my step-mom and dad bought a pop-up trailer and we started camping elsewhere in the state. My memory isn't the greatest, but I'm almost certain they got the pop-up after I started dating Ken. Eventually, my parents upgraded to a fifth wheel that my dad still pulls around to various nearby camping spots. Ken, by contrast, didn't have a set vacation destination growing up. His family camped. They started out with a truck-bed camper, I believe, and eventually upgraded to a fifth wheel. Ken and I vacationed both in Baldwin an...
I'm just sorry our library has a strict 50 items at a time policy. At the moment I've got almost a dozen books on the go. I take comfort from the fact that I'm modeling a love of reading for my kids. That helps me feel better when my husband says "Sugar, do we have ANY clean clothes?" and I can blithely say, "No, darling, just pick last night's stuff up off the floor and wear it again. Oh, by the way, our three year old has 50 sight words now."
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