the Worden World: the Lake

I grew up on a huge lake in Oklahoma. Pretty much everything in the town revolved around the lake which spanned 4 towns and 2 counties and nearly surrounded my hometown. So when my neighbors asked us years ago if we wanted to join them at their lake house about 3 hours north of Houston we jumped at the chance. We've been going to their lake house off an on ever since. It's in a quiet little town, very Texas, very country. It reminds me of home except that this lake is tiny in proportion to my hometown one. But the cows and horses surrounding the roads to get there might as well be the same ones that surround the roads to my lake back home. My husband has been wanting to take Celia "camping" there for a while now and decided this past weekend would be perfect. He planned on pitching a tent in their backyard and "camping out" with Celia while the comforts of home (like a potty) were just steps away. We loaded up the SUV with the 2 kiddos and headed up there. It's amazing how time flies. We realized on the way there that we had not been there since I was pregnant with Kye who is almost 2 now. Unfortunately for us the weather did not cooperate. Saturday was nasty cold and rainy. Amazingly, Celia and Mark were so intent on camping that they in fact did sleep in the tent Friday night, but came running in the house on Saturday morning to warm blankets. The weather messed up most of our plans to fish and enjoy nature. But we still had a great time inside reading, coloring, movie watching and did venture outside with lots of layers on for a nature walk.