Life at Oak Grove

What do you do when you loose power in your house and you need to call someone (or you are waiting for a phone call?).

We have found that without electricity our phones are not working… loose power – loose your phones.

Fortunately, we have learned that it is wise to have a regular phone handy.

Not too long ago, we lost power in our area for many hours.  

When that’s happens, I go in the basement and come back with an older phone which is plugged into the phone line in our kitchen.

Imagine the surprise of the kids when they heard the phone ringing that day – I was waiting for a phone call…   What’s this mommy?

Then it dawned on me that they have never realized what type of phone existed back in the 80s/90s.   LOL

So we showed it to them and explained how to use it.   

We had a good laugh my husband and I but it also reminded us that our kids live in an age where technology is everywhere – iPhones, cellular, iPad and so on.

Both of us got introduced to electronic games with the ATARI, to computers with the VIC20 and Commodore 64, the internet without images only links.

Times has gone by real fast….  Not it is social media, ebay, news on the internet and so on.

What is the future has in store for us and our kids?  I don’t know.

What I know is that day my kids got a lesson on technology (science), discovered an older version of phone (history) and now my oldest knows where to find it if we loose power…

One thing I know for sure – we are not getting rid of the old phone.  Every once in a while it is very useful…

I am participating in the 2011 Mommytography 365 Project! For this year long project I will be posting an image a day, to get me out shooting, using my camera and learning new things with it daily. Anyone interested in photography can join, no need to be a Mommytographer. We have teens to adults, male and female, as well as people from all over the world. Come join the fun!

We have been camping for quite some time with the kids.    We started up with a tent before we were parents which didn’t last long because my husband is not too fond of tent camping.

We purchased a tent trailer after we had kids and had a few years of enjoying it before we decide to upgrade to a travel trailer.

But all these years of camping with children, we were constantly making sure that they would not run into the fire pit.   Being young they would not think of this hazard in their way while running around.

One day, my husband saw that someone has created an ingenious little cover to block the possible fall into the fire pit.

All it took was the diameter of the fire pit, a piece of wood, a jigsaw and some paint.

The week-end, when we got back home, he proceeded to create not one but two of these covers. – one for our yearly campground and one to bring with us while we are on the road.   

He added a little handle so we can lift it up easily when we use the fire pit.

So now, we don’t have to worry that one of our kids will fell into the hole of the fire pit while running on our site.   We know that they can run freely around without eventually hurting themselves.   Mind you – my kids are not free of hurts but they won’t hurt the ankle, foot or leg on the fire pit.

Generally speaking, the fire pits are about the same size so our extra one is helpful when we are on the road.

Knowing that some of my friends are camping with friends, I thought I would share this little trick to enhance the security on your camping site.

Do you have other tips to protect your kids on the campground?   I would like to read them.  Please comment and let me know how you prevent potential injuries while camping.