Camping, Bike Riding and S'Mores

My wife and daughter aren't what you would consider the type of people who love being outdoors.

My daughter loves playing outside but hates any kind of bug that stings you. And our yard is a full of wasps and bees from the time it gets warm to when it gets cold. They are all over the place.

It's so bad right now for my daughter that she is wearing a light jacket to cover her arms when she is outside. I try to tell her that they will likely leave you alone if you just go about your own business, but she was stung once two summers ago and just hates everything about them.

We don't go to the pool enough. We don't ride bikes as a family enough right now. And we don't enough outside to get her used to the environment.

She can't fully swim yet but made huge steps last summer when we were on vacation in Colorado. And now swimming pools aren't open to further her learning right now. I suppose we could sign her up for swimming lessons.

We took her out to learn how to ride a bike without training wheels. That went better than we thought but she's not there yet. It will take some time and it's really up to her parents to continue to get her outside to work on it.

We went camping in the backyard for the first time last night. We started out by roasting s'mores in our fire pit. I could make a fire every weekend and just sit out there and enjoy the outside air. My wife hates them. So we just don't do it enough.

The s'mores were, per usual, delicious. My daughter loves them and enjoys sitting by a fire.

The camping experience could have been better. Our daughter slept from about 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. without a hitch. Her parents woke up every few hours. My legs, back, neck and shoulders hurt today. We are just not the roughing it crowd.

We made it to 5:30 a.m. and decided to come inside because the wife and daughter were cold and the birds were having some fun. They were loud!!!

The next time I sleep in a tent, there will be an air mattress. My body at almost 40 cannot handle the ground. Our backyard isn't exactly flat either.

I think camping in our future needs to be of the glamping variety. I think I could handle it more than my wife, but neither of us think sleeping in a tent without a mattress sounds all that fun. And we are feeling it today.