{"id":5335,"date":"2011-05-09T09:06:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2011-05-09T09:40:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:40:59","slug":"mothers-day-wkd-madcap-recap-10-things-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/mothers-day-wkd-madcap-recap-10-things-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day Wkd madcap recap, 10 things I learned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday and Saturday I took off to the Poconos with my daughter for a mother\/daughter retreat. The whole getaway sneaked up on me, and I realized about an hour before we had to leave that we were due to attend this overnight cabin camping getaway.<\/p>\n

Ten things I learned from my getaway:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. When a female retreat speaker likes to take off her shoes (and has toes that look like man fingers) I have trouble concentrating.<\/p>\n

2. Camp cabins have a wet sock meets wet canine smell. This is normal<\/span>.<\/p>\n

3. A retreat menu consists of 300% of one’s daily requirement of carbohydrates. (MMM and uh-oh.)<\/p>\n

4. A camping getaway is not complete unless several bugs are captured and treated like members of the family, before they die in captivity.<\/p>\n

5. Turkeys wake up at 4 a.m….vocalizing.<\/p>\n

6. Even if a mom\/daughter hike includes spotting deer up close, friendly fowl, and indescribable beauty, wet pants, shoes, and socks will incur massive amounts of overshadowing\u00a0whining.<\/p>\n

7. Staying up past 11 p.m. for its own sake makes an eight year old immeasurably ecstatic and then immeasurably exhausted 12 hours later. Usually there is crying involved.<\/p>\n

8. Apparently, when camping, there’s no such thing as “too much candy”.<\/p>\n

9. Unspoken camp rule: carbonated beverages are a right, not a privilege.<\/p>\n

10. Mysterious forces beyond one’s control cause one’s washcloths and towels to dry in no less than four days.<\/p>\n

What are some things you’ve learned from camping?<\/strong><\/p>\n


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photos of our time away.<\/p>\n