There is a home school camping trip coming up. I have now tracked down every other family going. One family will definitely be there Friday night. Another family may or may not, but she isn’t sure they are going camping at all. Another family *might* but they have a very full day of stuff planned on Friday and they would show up very late. Everyone else is coming Saturday.

We would go on Friday and come home on Saturday because I’m racing on Sunday. If the main group is going to show up en masse on Saturday right around when we are leaving… my kids are going to flip out and be very upset.

I’m not sure it is a good idea to drive that far for one night of camping so that I can upset my kids by not letting them stay to play with their friends. And it is a noticeable drive.

I’m beginning to think that we should cancel on camping.

ETA: Ok, there was another family going that I didn’t notice at first. They will definitely be there Friday. If there are two definite yes’s and one probably yes, that’s enough that I should just go. We can have fun with the smaller group and it will only be two families showing up as we leave. I think my kids will be able to handle that without screaming. *cross fingers*

If it were just us and one kid on Friday and then a whole hoard arrived on Saturday, my kids would feel hurt. This is worth paying attention to, even though I feel like a whiny twat-waffle.