Friday, May 8, 2009

Mother's Day Past, 2

About 8 years ago I purchased some property up north that was on a lake. It was purchased at a tax auction and was very affordable. There were no utilities hooked up and it was vacant land. For Mother's Day we decided to camp on our property. It. Was. Cold! My mother's gift that year was a king-sized sleeping bag with a below 40 degree weather rating. It came as a set of 2 that could be opened up and zipped together as one big bag.

At the time I had just the 2 kids and they were still little enough to wear sleeper pajamas. My mom had her sleeping bag and of course, because it was so cold, I gave my kids the other sleeping bag. I just doubled up on blankets for myself. At some point in the night, the temperature dropped big time. My dad got out of the tent and went to sleep in his car. My brother, mother and children were sleeping peacefully and I sat, shivering so bad that I could hardly stay under my covers, staring at my sleeping children, wondering how bad a mother I would be to switch my blankets for that below 40 degree rated sleeping bag! After all...they had on long johns, sleeper pajamas, socks and fleece hats.

I stayed strong and let the little darlings keep the sleeping bag, but needless to say... it was a very long night. The next morning when my mom woke up, she threw back the sleeping bag, and said with breathless delight, "Whew! I was so hot last night I had to get out of my long johns!" GRRRR or BRRRRRR! I never could get warm for the rest of the weekend.

Less than a week later, in the mail arrived my king-sized, below 40 degree rated sleeping bags. I love Ebay...