Sit by the fire with me...

2015 is the year I am going to BE more.

This means that I'm going to stop waiting for "when" and wishing that circumstances are different - and just make things different.

One of those circumstances for me is Glamping.  I know...odd.

But it is.

I'm a mom of two young girls. I am married to a funeral director and work full-time.  We live in Wisconsin.

I love to camp.  I love to sit by a fire with a cocktail or a glass of deep red wine.  I love water and boats and trees and cooking outside and everything that can be done at a campsite.

I also have a deep desire to Glamp.

Maybe it's the bit of fanciness that goes into glamping that attracts me. Maybe it's making a fuss over a campsite and changing my environment to be exactly how I want it - outside - and striking it after just a couple of days.  Maybe it's having a hobby that requires planning, contemplation and creativity...and that I get to really enjoy in my favorite places on earth.  Maybe it's deliberately removing myself from the daily grind to go off into the woods and play pretend.  Maybe it's that glamping is really like playing in an adult-sized fort of my own design.  I'm thinking chandeliers right now...

Whatever it is - I want to Glamp.

But...a lot of the Glamping groups are for ladies without baggage. I completely get - and love - their policies of no kids, no pets, no husbands.  But this doesn't make sense for me right now.  And I can't possibly justify bailing on my family a couple of times each year to go off and camp by myself.  In fact, if I were really honest about this - which you should be...when you're fireside - I would admit that I feel awfully guilty making glamping plans and purchases without including my family.

I know...mom guilt...whatever.

But 2015 is the year of BEING more.  And I want to be a Glamper...with my kids.

When I started looking for some sites about Glamping With Kids, I really didn't find anything outside of some luxury vacation spots in the UK.  They were nice, but not exactly what I was looking for.  So, I decided to start a little blog here to talk Glamping...With My Kids.  And if there were other people out there who liked the ideas, perhaps I might help set a couple of other moms free to be Glampers...with their kids.

So, if you're a mom or dad who is looking for a way to Glamp - or camp in a new way - with kids - welcome!  Glad you found our fire.  Can I pour you a drink?