Grandpa's are always looking for paybacks for all the stress their kids gave them, at least I am. So, All the kids and grandkids home one Christmas. And Grandpa had made special arrangements. I told each of the grandkids (not their mothers) to be sure and come prepared for a winter campout.
After checking the weather reports to see which night was going to be the ugliest, stormiest night of the visit, and after swearing all the grandkids to secrecy, the campout night was decided. Leading up to the big night, the kids regaled their mothers of snow caves built and how fun it would be to winter camp with grandpa.
Mothers apprehension was very apparent as following supper, out we all trooped though the three feet of snow to the old orchard 300 yards to the north. I was carrying the three year old and all the others trooping behind.
Right to the straw cave I had built the fall before. With a foot of good straw on the dry ground all covered with a tarp and with 4 feet of straw walls around us and heavy poles covered by a large canvas tarp and with small straw bales on top of that covered by another tarp, we were just as warm, cosy and shut off from the weather as those in the house.
Mothers fretted and worried but grandma (probably told them the truth) kept them at ease reminding them of all the good campouts they had as kids.
Awwww revenge
Spending time with children is more important than spending money on them. (Don't know who said it but I like it)
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-- Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain
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