{"id":39600,"date":"2013-06-24T00:07:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T07:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=39600"},"modified":"2013-06-24T00:07:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T07:07:50","slug":"outpost-glamping-merit-badge-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/39600","title":{"rendered":"Outpost Glamping Merit Badge, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our<\/span> Sisterhood Merit Badge program<\/a>, now with 5,205 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20147,043 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wondering who I am? I\u2019m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my<\/span> former life<\/a> \u2026 <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For this week\u2019s Outpost\/Glamping Merit Badge<\/a>, I steeled myself for an overnight with my favorite triplets. Midge\u2019s kiddos are somewhere between the ages of 6 and 12, respectively. Hey, I\u2019m a single gal: I\u2019m not great with guessing children\u2019s ages! I just know they are old enough to buckle their own seat belts, but not old enough to get a learner\u2019s permit.<\/p>\n

Anyway \u2026<\/p>\n

Midge needed an overnight sitter, so Yours Truly volunteered. Well, volunteer<\/em> is a strong word \u2026 more like my deer-in-the-headlights look must have masqueraded as a pick-me look. I\u2019d better work on that. But all kidding aside, I was psyched, amped up, phat, chillaxed, you know, to be the cool auntie for a night, plus<\/i> it was the perfect opportunity to earn another badge! Which one, you might ask?<\/p>\n

The ever-popular Glamping one.<\/p>\n

Oh. Yes. Indeedy.<\/p>\n

Though I\u2019d heard of glamping, collected a Pinterest wall of glamping ideas, have friends who have done it, and daydreamed of all it entailed, I still hadn\u2019t left my house.<\/p>\n

My comfy, comfy house.<\/p>\n

With that comfy, comfy bathroom.<\/p>\n

Yes, I’m a wimp. A pathetic excuse for a farmgirl. I\u2019ve said it.<\/p>\n

But no more! I was going glamping. Even if it was just in the backyard.<\/p>\n

Close to that comfy, comfy bathroom.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t fret, chickadees, I don\u2019t plan to cheat.<\/p>\n

Unless completely necessary.<\/p>\n

\"MBA_Jane-4189\"<\/p>\n

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Pile of quilts in hand (because, let\u2019s face it, sleeping bags are so dull and so are broken zippers), the triplets and I spent the twilight hours readying our campsite. I had a tent somewhere in the depths of the garage, but we were really hankering for a REAL night under the stars, so with their tree-climbing skills, we managed to drape king sized sheets and erect our own bohemian, gypsy style, open tent. Even with just the sheets, our glamping was coming along swimmingly, if I do say so myself! My yard already looked pin-able, and we hadn\u2019t even finished with the details yet.<\/p>\n

Next to come were pillows and blankets and\u00a0a hammock, and when combined with the ever-so-lovely garden light I made a while back, we were really in style. My fire pit was readied with kindling and one of the triplets sharpened sticks for s\u2019mores and other roasted delights. (While I looked away in fear. Fear of a child with a knife? More like fear of Midge finding out. What I claim I didn\u2019t know can\u2019t hurt me. Babysitting 101.) Evening was just settling in when we started packing out dinner prep, dessert items, breakfast foods, snacks, and elevensies. Hey, glamping is at least 50% about the food!<\/p>\n

My excitement was building and our adventure had only just begun \u2026\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our Sisterhood Merit Badge program, now with 5,205 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20147,043 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ Wondering … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gladsome_sisters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}