This past fall, I was certainly determined to finally get our kids up to see the foliage where I grew up… However, this is such a remarkable experience that I wanted to be sure that they saw it this year; however, it won’t be long before they are gone and this has been 1 of those strange things I’ve consistently wanted to do together as a family.
I simply grew up outside of the central air conditioning as much as I possibly could; however, any option I had to go camping or get out in nature, I took it.
So it’s very sort of disheartening that our immediate family has very little desire to go camping at all, then every time I bring up even a weekend camping trip, I get groans all around! Nobody wants to leave the air conditioning or the wi-fi or the cable to go out and care about what nature has to offer… But I started early in the Summer when it came to this leaf enjoying trip. And the more I talked about it, the more I realized this was something I was willing to negotiate over. And I knew it would come to that with these homebound people. So the trip with our family entirely did happen and it was a beautiful week. But we stayed in campgrounds where there were toilets and showers and electricity. So I also agreed to bring along some space furnaces as our family was so worried that it would be cold in the evening. It was certainly worth the compromise even when it came to the space furnaces because we had such a beautiful time. And the leaves were just perfect this past fall.
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