Let’s talk about sleep. To be specific toddler sleep while camping. The big concern is that going away for a weekend or more will mean sleepless nights as you try to enjoy the great outdoors. I am going to begin by saying that it is not always easy to get your kids to sleep well…
The Ultimate Baby Camping List
When we first started we had a baby camping list. It made camping so much easier if we had done some planning ahead of time. To help you enjoy camping I created this ultimate baby camping list that will help you get through about 3-5 days. If you are going on a 5 day camping…
Family Camping: 4 Packing Tips
Camping with two kids aged 1 and 2 1/2 is extremely fun and rewarding. That being said it is also chaotic. If you want to know what a morning camping is like check out a post I wrote for Vanlife Diaries here. In order to ease the chaos of camping with kids we found the…
Camping with a Newborn and a Toddler
Introduction: Just 3 weeks after our 2nd daughter was born the weather was fantastic. That meant that it was time to take her on her first camping trip. Since we took our toddler camping when she was about 5 weeks old, I felt it was not a big deal taking our 3 week old. My motto…
Tips for camping when pregnant
After my kids went to bed the other night husband gave me the idea to write a post about camping when pregnant. He turned on the computer and opened up the folder ‘Twin Islands’ that contained pictures from one of our camping trips when I was pregnant. To be exact it was the canoe camping trip we…
Tips for Backcountry Hiking with a Baby
The tips in this post are based on our first backcountry camping trip with our baby. The tips posted here are based on my reflections post-trip and what I might have done differently on my first backpacking trip with a baby. Basically, “If I knew then, what I know now”. Please keep in mind that…
10 Tips for Camping with a Newborn
Camping with a newborn can be a very intimidating experience especially when it is your first. It definitely requires some more packing including somewhere for the baby to sleep. Camping beds for babies are a good option. It is totally worth it to take your baby camping. It was refreshing being in the great outdoors…