Sadly she passed away a few years ago.

We went camping this weekend and I did that again.. We left on Thursday morning and by Wednesday, mid-day-ish I had already completely lost my composure and was freaking out (to myself and the cat) about how out of control of the packing situation I was.This was supposed to be the year when I took lots of extra time to make all my preparations just perfect, but that didn’t happen.

Why do we even go camping anyway?We live in the country already and we have this house that I spend all this time trying to make welcoming and comfy and now we’re going to leave that, do a whole bunch more work to just get through the day, and come back having lost three days of housework time.”.So I told myself a bunch of reasons why and they made sense and sounded good enough and all.

That kept me going for a few hours, but by later that night I was in full-on freak-out mode again, got over it, and decided to just try to keep a good attitude about it the next day.I’m exhausting!.

I always go on a little rampage when I wake up in the tent on camping mornings.

Everything is wet!Things can get pretty uncomfortable pretty quick with a rug this thin on top of the hard floors underneath, but I’ve really been refusing to upgrade this rug until the time is right.. Rug Pad USA.

Rug Pad USA contacted me recently, just in the knick of time and asked if I wanted to partner with them on a blog post (and a giveaway for my readers!)and I had the perfect opportunity for just such a post!

My knees are forever grateful!They have different rug pads for different rug types, different flooring types, and different softness needs, but the one I decided to use in here is called.