A Mother’s Warning

Dear Bryan,

As you prepare to take my not-quite-two-year-old first-born-girl-child camping (with Eric and Nathan in Nathan’s grandparents’ backyard—they live in the country folks), a few words of advice…please heed these or we may have a problem…

• don’t let her fall in the fire
• don’t let her fall in the pond
• don’t let her choke on a hot dog
• don’t let her suffocate in her sleeping bag
• don’t let her get bitten by anything that starts with an “s” (spider, scorpion, snake…you get the picture)
• don’t let her get too scared in the dark
• don’t let her burn herself on a smores…or the thingy you roast the marshmallows on
• don’t let her drive the tractor—never mind, don’t let her get on the tractor
• please, please, please bring her home in the same condition that I sent her

Sincerely,

Lisa

P.S. Aren’t you glad I’m not that over protective type of parent?  They drive me crazy.  Their kids never get to experience anything fun…like nature.