I need a tent ... right now.

The majority of people who have heard this story have responded by saying, "yeah, when you have kids you won't be able to do that anymore." Well, you negative nellies, we won't need to because we'll already have everything we need when we finally make the baby thing work!

Here's the story:
My husband and I have been grousing pretty much all summer about how we don't go camping. "I used to go camping all the time when I was a kid," he says. "Why don't we ever go camping?"

I'm with him. The idea of camping and being outdoorsy sounds really good to me, especially because when we have kids, we won't be able to do that anymore (at least that's what my friends tell me). We even went as far as purchasing two new mummy sleeping bags a few weeks ago. We are now ready to sleep outside in temperatures as low as 20 degrees F.

So last night, I am online trying to decide what I should use the amazing power of the internet for when it dawns on me ... we can't control the fact that we don't have children yet, and we can't control the fact that our jobs are crazy, but we can friggin' go camping! So, I go to the state website and start looking for good campsites in a part of the state that puts us close to the airport so we can pick up my parents when they come up for Labor Day weekend. I hope they don't mind riding in the car next to happy, stinky campers.

We spent a good amount of time deciding what campsite would be best considering the location and other sites, and we finally had reservations for Thursday and Friday night. Now all we needed was a tent - that's right, we made campsite reservations for a "tent-only" site and we don't even have a tent.

The good news is, we live within 30 minutes of a 24-hour supplier of goods such as tents. So last night at 9:21, we climbed into our cars (story about dropping off my car at the mechanic isn't really a good story), dropped my car off at the mechanic, then headed to the store. Man that was a good time!

We found the tent we wanted on the grass outside the store and climbed in and actually tried it out. It's fantastic. Roomy. If we ever do make the kid thing work, the kid will fit in the tent! I would say that this particular tent purchase means we CAN do this when we have kids (you negative nellies!). It was great. We were even able to find other items we needed AND be home before midnight.

Crazy, you say? Well, who's crazier, the people who go to the store to buy a tent late at night, or the store that's open so people can go buy a tent late at night? (that said, man, do I ever love that store!)