Month: December 2018

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Nature Snacks

As a father of two growing boys, snacks are a big part of navigating the day. The day, especially the weekends, when we are together the whole day, often seems organized around feeding them. As an adult, I can keep myself fed on food, but I struggle to keep myself nourished on nature. Too often, I have had the mentality of needing nature feasts to get any benefit. The time, commitment, and logistics would make this an overwhelming undertaking and I would end up with nothing. However, in 2018 I started to learn that I can gain from the restorative properties of nature with nature snacks during days and weekends.

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Working our way into Winter Camping

My youngest (six-year old) is really turning into a partner for getting outdoors. The kid is always down to go for a hike or do anything outside. Not only that, but it is his nature that if you give him an inch, he’ll take a mile. Whenever I suggest something outdoors, he’ll one-up me. Take a walk to the park? => Let’s go on a hike. Go for a hike in the county park five miles away? => Let’s ride our bikes there first.

Somewhere along the way he got in his head that we HAD to go winter camping this year. Now I figure that my boys are old enough that we could handle that, and I figured that we would do it some time this winter. But the chance happened to present itself this weekend, thanks to my youngest.

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