Day 8: Life lessons at camp...

I just finished feeding the kids and waiting to have a quiet lunch with Grandpa when he gets back from the laundry mat. Of course, our washing machine broke during the grandkids visit with the most laundry to do. 

Yup! That's Murphy's law.

Little things like that make us appreciate the conveniences of life's comfort here in America. I look forward to blog or journal my thoughts to be centered right now to chat with you.

While I was feeding the kids this week, I get many comments of what they like and dislike. Mostly good healthy food is not on their most favorites list. hahaha 

Sounds familiar?

So typical of many kids. I've learned not every kid likes hot dogs or watermelon in the summer. Really? 

Really!

So packing for our camping trip was to cover all bases to cater to our little precious ones with their preferences during their summer time with us.

Some like hot dogs, others don't but ALL of them like hamburgers!!!

As an Asian "Nana" who didn't grow up with the traditions,  hot dogs and hamburgers are not my specialities! 

 As my American parents tried to introduce all the All-American traditions to me long ago , I still personally don't eat hot dogs or hamburger to be an expert on these favorite dishes during our camping trip, still today.

Grandpa is the hero in the hot dogs and S'mores dept on the first night. 

Yeah! A break for Nana on the first night from cooking.

I enjoyed watching the All- American camping fun around the camp fire. 

I adore the children's chatters with their burning hot dogs and s'mores around the camp fire.

A fun dinner for all and they are so willing to do their own dinner and especially s'mores too. 

What a great classic all-American camping dinner memories!! PRICELESS!

The second night, we had hamburgers. Our grill was out of order... another Murphy's Law.

So I used the RV's kitchen on burner & in the skillet to cook the burgers. 

I bought the premium "Angus steak burger" patties for a better quality of meat. 

I asked how many burgers should I cook? 

How many can you eat? 

All said, 2 each. WOW! 

This crowd was a hungry crow. Our littlest wanted hot dog again so that was easy to make her a happy camper.

I cooked 8 hamburger patties for all (the grandparents are vegan) from my RV kitchen and handed to Grandpa outside for their hamburger fixings with hot fresh french fries from my air fryer. 

I holler out to see if every thing is ok with the burgers. Do you need Nana to cook more if it's still pink? No further requests and heard they liked them. 

So...the chef was done and pleased to hear from my hot kitchen.

Later, I heard Grandpa found half a hamburger patty in the trash can and another hardly touched hamburger was also in the trash. What?

He asked who threw the good food in the trash? NO one was willing to fess up!. 

Grandpas decided that no S'mores for everyone until someone or someones can tell the truth.

SO...We had our own little camping LIFE LESSON to learn to be HONEST on this particular trip!

The group of our precious 5 kids huddled together to find out who will fess up so they all can have their s'mores for tonight. We even encourage them that the truth is very important and they will not be in trouble by being honest but no one will come forth. 

It was so interesting to see the whole group's discussion about it because delicious s'more treats was on the line for everyone. This is pretty straight forward scenario we thought, for the guilty party or parties will to do the right thing. 

Everyone was so supportive of each other to find the truth and not being in trouble with the grandparents so everyone can have their s'mores together. BUT... sadly that wasn't the case on this camping trip

Hmmmm.... We were perplexed as to why.

After few hours, Grandpa made a hint that there may be two people that need to fess up.

Finally, one admitted with tears of remorse in his eyes and he admitted it was his 

BUT.. the second burger hardly touched burger wasn't his. 

Lesson learned. A lesson of telling the truth and being honest was on the line. The second guilty one is still at large... 

THERE WERE NO S'MORES that night. :( 

From these precious 5, there is one that's already learning to hide and to lie?

So young? So soon? So sad... 

Will we ever find out who was the second guilty one! 

How young or old do they learn right and wrong? Not to mention being wasteful.

 It is, not that he/she threw away a good burger , but more importantly to be able to be honest about it instead of being deceitful or being afraid to not tell the truth .  

They all are very good kids.

But this is the biggest life lesson concerning for our younger generation has surfaced.

On the other hand, the good news is the premium quality burgers were saved and appreciated from the trash after all!  Fluffy and Buddy, my fur children also had a great camping dinner that night! Woof woof!

I learned to save some money until they appreciate good food. 

They do like noodles, macaroni & cheese, lunchables and pizzas and lots of sweets.

And so ...they start on the S.A.D  (Standard American Diet) for our younger generations to come?

Lessons for Nana...So much for quality! hahaha 

AND... I understand it's all about fun memories of the camping traditions, more than the quality of food so, its OKAY with me.

In addition to good fun camping memories, they will learn life lessons fondly from the grandparents as they mature with their own memories and consciousness of the person, he/she wants to be...regardless what we try to teach them in their youth. Reality is each child has his/her own journey to build their own character.

We as grandparents are not a full time influencers in their daily upbringing so we just love them and cherish the priceless time when they are with us. 

God knows there will be more life lessons will come in time....

"Bless are the sweet little children"

Hai