First Camping Trip

In July we took the boys on our first camping trip as a family! We only went to a park about half hour away, just in case kids gave us too much trouble! We started of great, we brought s'mores, started a fire, and just sat around and talked as a family. Our camp site was on the bank of the North Santiam, just perfect! Turns out the noise of the river is perfect for a few reasons, first in lulled us all to sleep, second it muffled the noise of the thieves whom raided our camping equipment while we slept! the next morning about 6 am, bill taps me on the head from the oustide of the tent to tell me that "all of our stuff was gone." well....the night before Bill asked me "should we put all of our stuff away?" to which i answered "No, babe it's kind of like camping code, it'lll be fine" famous last words! I won't bore you with the details of what they took, but i will tell you how this sour note ended on a great lesson of kindness for our kids. The camp host (who meant to tell us that there had been a problem with theft, and to guard our things) was SO GRACIOUS with us. He gave us a pan, forks, plates, sausage, eggs,and a lighter to replace ours that was taken. Our boys had a hard time understanding why bad boys would take our things including our tackle box so we couldn't go fishing, but that was met with a sincere tangible act of kindness. We went home, with fewer "things" than we started with, and with inspiration to pass forward the kindness we experienced.