Independent Adventurer awards

Independent Adventurer awards
Daddy Man and I set up the Tent for the kids in the back yard for the weather is perfect.
The kids wanted an adventure.

Last weekend the kids slept out side in the tent all weekend

They slept with the "bears".
With the foodstuffs to consider they had their own ice chest complete with marshmallows and all the joyful things needed for a proper camp out.

This on the second sight out was what they awoke to on the patio door.
As Mighty hunter will tell ya, there is nothing like the hunt and the chase to follow!
This is the reward of the hunt.
He landed on doves shirt and she just stood there and screamed half fear and half delight.

This is a big grass hopper.
He is probably thriving on my garden in part :)

Sunday night
We made a BBQ and ceremony to acknowledge the courage and adventurous spirit they both showed. We all did the ceremonial collapsing of the tent otherwise known as the . Avoid the melt down of the tent being torn down and the fun ending)

BBQ hot dogs for the kids and cowboy beans, Daddy and I had steak. (It was awesome they had it half off as a family package and so I just cooked all of them (we had a lot of left overs)

My Beloved set up a wonderful shop light for the grill so I could see well.

The children had made their own "lap tops" by copying the keyboard onto paper and tapeing it into a hard bound binder. Too cute! This was their own doing.

Grandma and I made these on her machine in the afternoon. I had managed to hide them from the kids.

I made a formal big to-do about it.
Passing out the awards, I touched there heads and said "remember this allways"
Dash had a fit because he did not like the image of himself on the award and it all went down hill from there. He coped a real bad attitude.
Later he even said hurtful thins that wounded my peace.
I just walked away telling him some stupid (on my part comment about "here is a knife just cut my heart out") I know very stupid for the adult.
Dove just fell apart and ran to her room. I then went in to appoligize and admit to the stupidity of it all . She read jokes to me while I laid on her bed. It was pricesess. She said that she just wanted to cheer me up cause Dash was so mean.
Wow! How tender a daughter we have raised.

Dash has sence then been rather regressed and has been very clingy and pouty. Oh man parenting can be hard.