Out of my Element

While I may be a natural woman, I am so not a nature girl.

I share this because we are leaving for what we call The Property. Which is a cabin in the middle of nowhere that Steven's dad built while hubs was growing up. There's a pier out to the lake for fishing, acres and acres of woods for exploring, a giant swing for swinging, a zip line for zipping, a fire pit for cooking smores, a tractor for a hay ride and all sorts of other good fun. EXCEPT, did you read middle of nowhere? Well I take that back, it's in the middle of a billion bugs, snakes, and little critters. I don't do so well with vermin.

We're going because I said last week, you know dear it might be fun to take the girls to The Property, it might be a good little experience for them. And hopefully if they get enough exposure to it at a young age, they might not grow up to be the scared, wimpy little nature hater their momma is. You know their momma who when she goes away for the weekend is thinking more along the lines of a turn down service and a chocolate mint on the pillow and lounging by the pool with a cocktail and the ability to dial up some french fries at 2 am?

I'm not at all sure at what point in my life I turned into this girly-girl princess type. There was a time where I would jump in a lake and not worry about what was nibbling at my toes, climb a tree, bait a hook, hang my butt off the side of the pier and pee in a lake or poke dead things with a stick. But now, hmm, I'm stressing to find that pair of jeans that aren't designer name and digging through my closet to locate a pair of tennis shoes that aren't Ed Hardy, because my wardrobe is not geared for the great outdoors. Oh, and there's no running water or internet. I'm trying to decide which I'm going to miss more...

But the girls are excited, well most of them. Princess might be too far down in the path of her momma's footsteps to turn back. And really I am looking forward to it, I'm excited to see how they do and to see Steven and his dad in their element. We've been in the past (although it's been a few years) and always had a great time. And I will have a good time as long as the bugs stay away. And my husband wakes up to walk me to the bathroom in the middle of the night. And I don't have to touch any worms while we're fishing. And I don't step in poison ivy. And the A/C in the cabin works. And I win at all the board games. And my steak's not overcooked.

See, I'm really not all that high-maintenance.