The evening started with dinner on an open flame. Veggie hamburgers, corn, asparagus, and fruit salad. Tonight was “camp-out night”. Four dads, Nine Kids and enough “smores” ingredients to sugar up a small city.

With the help of some borrowed tents, and a little imagination we were camping. Led by Shaun, we sang songs including “On Top of Spaghetti”, “Old McDonald”, and some other one about “gopher guts” around a small camp fire. We roasted our processed puffed sugar, and listened to the night noises.

Ok so we weren’t exactly “roughing it”. We were in my backyard, and the “small camp fire” was a portable barbecue, but to those nine kids, ages ranging from three to nine, we were in the wilderness. We had a great time last night, hopefully creating some memories with our kids, bonding as men (like you do in the woods) and enjoying what I refer to as “commune-ity”.

In the morning, more playing, breakfast and never having to get out of pajamas. We had a great time. Now I think it’s nap time for all the dads.