PureTcrazy...rita

For another year, anyway, until Anna hits her growth spurt.

Aww, poor Mater!
I hear ya about the pool! But I do remember being like your kids and swimming no matter how blue my lips turned. Ahhh, to be young again.
I like the bathroom pic! It's definitely not your average shot. :rofl2:

That's my trip report :rofl2:

I solved that problem, I never wrote a first one.
And here's a little secret just between you and me. TRs go by a lot quicker because I don't look at any of the photos that don't have the writer or their family in it.

Good job, now keep it coming....

Yay! I"m glad they liked the special suckers we got for Fiend kids!

Oh my, I was there for a week and I am just now starting to get hungry again. Time moves sooo slowly when I am hungry and drooling over these pictures...

Anna typically steals the show.
Who knew I was married to such a Snark Princess?

I thought of OldeKoot when I typed that!

Wow, you are good. I even want to camp with your family.

You know I saw the first man to wear that shirt wearing that shirt on the first day of release for the first time.

I'm just a few hours away from being back online for the evening...so this report will be back on track before long! :)

I LOVE the idea of living on the road, and I hope if I'm not to old to drive around by the time my kids leave home, we can take part in this kind of lifestyle. This is just all my personal opinion but since you ask.....
a family of five going from 2400 to 300 square feet would kill me, sometimes I just need a few moments away not to mention "mommy daddy private time".. :rofl2: where would you put the kids?
You mentioned the social interaction of your children with other children, that would be cut drastically, you have to ask yourself is that the right thing for them? I dont home school but I know that alot of home school mom's still have their children involved with community sports and clubs so the only thing the kids miss are the learning hours, I personally feel that is a very important part of their sweet little lives.. how would that work if your moving every few months? Would you stay in one place long enough for them to do sports for a season? And if you did.. do you want to stay in a park where "permenant residents" are prominent?
I know that's a good chunck of negatives, I just think with kids, it's a lot more challenging, not impossible, but challenging.
But on the other hand, It sounds like a dream and nobody knows you and your family better than you do, everyone is different, every child is different. My oldest son 13 and my youngest girl would love that life style, however I think my other children would be miserable. They are very social beings :)

I must admit as the mother of 4 young children I can't even imagine what the day will be like when our kids go on "an adventure" without parental supervision.
Most of our trips are more like your Halloween TR when you watched your nephew in the camper.
I am enjoying living vicariously through this TR and envisioning leisurely setting up the camper with my husband someday without stopping every 3 minutes to fix a skin knee, referee a fight or get someone a drink.

My husband falied to stress how much our children LOVE Innoventions and all the super cool games (or glorified life size commercials). They'll be super bummed when the "garbage truck game" and the "fire house" aren't there anymore because they have been there as long as they can remember. Then there's the talking trash can in the Electric Umbrella, they find things to throw away so they can find the trash can.

Yay! I'm so glad you're doing a trip report! I am also a band geek!

I also pay a lot of monthly bills with my dis visa, but I subtract it right out of my checkbook and "highlighter" it, so when the visa bill comes the money is there to pay it.

I choose aluminum canned beer vs glass when possible. I can get payed recycling the cans, plus a workout crushing them.
When picking up litter from the roadways, I always recycle the aluminum.

I'm good like that!

This is an awesome site that lists ooodles and oodles of campgrounds with cool search features!
http://www.wecamphere.com/
Please help Lil Lisa and do a review!

Thanks Stef (hope I am spelling it right). He needs to be reminded how intelligent I am.
I am bummed we missed you too! Would have been nice to catch up again.

I found purple lights at Menard's..