Wonder Parenting: Retta's First Camping Trip

A couple of weekends ago we decided it was high time to get into the Maine woods and pitch a tent, what with it being August and all! After much deliberation we chose to go camping at Sabao Lake, a place that my parents took my brother and I many times as a kid. My earliest memories of camping are from Sabao: catching my first fish, hanging over the side of the canoe in my orange life jacket letting my fingers skim the water trying to grab yellow pond lilies, digging giant holes in the sand and trying to jump across them with all the other camping kids, surviving a huge thunderstorm in our tent, picking and eating blueberries, and on and on. Anyway, it is a special place to me and I was excited to share it with Aaron and the girls. Over the years the campground got taken over by what we like to call the "hook and bullet crowd" for a bit, and while it still does not provide a solitary wilderness experience, it is a little quieter there now. At the very least, it was fun to go back and relive my childhood with my own girls. I realized it had been **GULP** 20 years since I'd been there! Retta turned out to be a happy camper, boding well for future trips. She slept swaddled up right next to me on a camping pad, and the only special baby gear we brought was her bouncy chair so we had a place to put her that was up off the ground. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the weekend: