Camping Supplies & Triplets @ Target!

Today we had to make a Target run to stock up on camp things for my eldest. He will leave in about a week for Camp Pioneer, a boyscout camp in Arkansas for a whole week's vacation from his siblings and family!

Being a typical pre-teen/tween kinda guy, he has his own little quirks and idiosyncrasies such as his habit of wanting to wear only jeans during the very hot and sweltering Louisiana summers and wearing any t-shirt that he has discovered hanging in his closet such as the very nice, very new yet long sleeved green army shirt that he decided to try and wear out yesterday.

Hmm... I really have to do some convincing and get him to change his wardrobe over to normal summer clothes somehow. So, off to Target we went, triplets, stroller, 12 year old and all.

I did manage to get him to pick out several pairs of very long, what I would label as "Skater" shorts as they are worn way past his knees (skaters wear these in some hopes of not skinning their knees!) He even found a few t-shirts that would do that weren't too suggestive as he tends to shop in the men's department for his very scrawny size 12 (10 to you & I who would go by his size, not his age.)

I asked him what he wished he would have had last year that he didn't, and was rewarded with the totally knew revelation that this camp does have electricity and that he needed a FAN because there just wasn't any breeze up there in the mountains. So I actually bought him a tiny fan for his camping trunk.

We headed over to pick up a few things from the frozen section after we finished our camping supply hunting foray. We were just about to debate over the finer points of fish sticks as a new food for the babies, when someone came running up, asking, "Are you the lady with triplets?"
As I turned around, I was met with a very happy very bright shining face that said, "I have a set too!"

It was really nifty. This lady had heard from other customers and staff that we were shopping with our triplets (the Target staff pretty much know us by now!) and had come looking for us! She indeed is the proud mumsy of girl, girl, boy triplets and appears to have a child very close in age to my son as well. It was really neat to get to meet a family so very like my own!

Hi, Michelle! I couldn't resist writing about this! I was very fortunate to get to meet you and your triplets in Target, our favourite place to have a triplet convention (we have met at least four sets that ways, all of different ages) Until yesterday, however, I had never run into anyone anywhere close to my age. Hopefully, we will get together again and have more time to talk and get to know each other!

I don't know why it is, but at Target it would seem you can get everything that you need, all in the same shopping excursion and sometimes, just sometimes, a little bit more.

Today, I gathered camping supplies for my eldest, three tiny sun hats and sets of sandals for the triplets to wear to the park, one very super huge fabric covered ball for the triplets, and a new friend with a set of triplets and a family that is very much like mine. Who could ask for a better shopping excursion?