Hot Dog Sticks

After our last camping trip, we learned we did not have enough hot dog sticks. Everyone needs there own now. So I started looking to buy some new ones. I want the kind that extend longer so my kids can be back a little further from the fire. I priced some out and online seemed better choices than most of the stores near me.

One of our hot dog sticks is hot pink with my name on it that I painted when I was at Girls Camp many years ago as a teenager. I thought before I ordered any I would ask my Mom (who was in charge of girls camp back then) where she got mine. Maybe I could get more like mine. I asked her and she told me that someone made them for her, but she might have some extras. We went digging in the closet at her house where she stores all the camping gear and found enough for all my kids to each have one and still leave some for grandma. 3 were unfinished and 1 was plain blue and one had my name on it. I guess I made more than one back then.

So for a family activity my kids enjoyed painting their own hot dog stick. They will get their first hot dogs and marshmallows cooked on them this weekend while we go camping. Fun family times!

Zoo Day

Spring weather makes me want to be outside, especially after this cold winter. Yesterday we went with our little preschool group to the zoo. The kids had lots of fun and most of the big animals were surprisingly active. Giraffes were all outside near the fences. The elephant was scratching himself on his scratch post. The bears, monkeys, and leapards were all up and moving in their cages. That made it more fun for the kids to watch them.

I must mention that the giraffes were S favorite because he has a Webkinz Jr giraffe named Moonga which he loves and sleeps with every night. R likes elephants best just like his Webkinz Jr elephant Mirror who love to watch him play games and Mirror talks to me all the time.

It did feel a little strange only having 2 kids with me and not all 5, but school just gets in the way sometimes. But there were 100s of school kids there that day on field trips from lots of school districts, but not ours. Another neat thing for me was this was the first time I did the zoo without bringing a stroller or wagon. My boys were big enough to walk it all and really did well for almost 5 hours, they complained only a bit in the last hour, but then they saw something else cool and were fine again. They even had energy to feed the ducks before we left and chase more birds (which they did whenever they saw a bird!) It was a fun day!