Spend the coming weekend in checking and trying out the many items you bought the other night online at your favorite store’s clearance sale. Your niece who works at the store, called encouraging you to take advantage of their very low prices for camping table. She knew you were thinking of replacing the folding wooden tables you used in your campout a month ago, as they have weakened due to the termites that ate the interiors of the wood.
When you surfed your way to the clearance sale your niece talked, about you discovered that they indeed have big discounts on many items, so you also ordered a new family tent and some folding beds to replace your inflatable beds that have accumulated holes and no longer repairable with sealant rubber. You asked your niece to have them delivered including the camping tables before the weekend, so you can check them out before storing the new items in the attic. Since many of the new camping gear are already made of non-wood materials you think, the termite problem will no longer be a bother.
You intend to test the new family tent you bought with an actual campout in the patio in the coming weekend, as it is the birthday of your youngest boy and he wants his celebration out in the patio, complete with all the camping gear and a sleep-out schedule for Saturday night. He still feels that your camping trip was too short, so he wants to continue the experience even just right in the patio. A perfect coincidence with your plan to check out all the items you bought including the folding camping table for your next summer outing.
Mom has agreed to invite the cousins for the birthday of the kid in the patio, including the outdoor sleeping on Saturday night. The cousins are a riotous group when they are all gathered in occasions like the coming birthday of your kid. You look forward to a tiring weekend keeping control of the very active cousins. Mom has scheduled three meals on the camping cooking tables for dinner Saturday, breakfast, and lunch on Sunday - before the party breaks up Sunday afternoon so the kids can prepare their school gear for the coming opening of classes.
It has been quite a summer for Mom, with the kids staying home for about two months free from their classes. She has been complaining to you that she may not last for another month with the kids around most of the time, so she even thought of sending them over to her sister ’s place in the next county, so she could get some free time to relax. Her sister, childless, was all for the idea of her nieces and nephews staying with her for the rest of the summer vacation. Somehow, Mom survived up to the very day when school is about to open, so she just told her sister that she will send the kids over in the next vacation next year. In the meantime, she is busying herself with some knitting seated on one of the folding tables for camping, while you take over supervision of the kids in their games. |