You will thus have the need for a folding camping chair and table most of the time. It is necessary therefore that you have these items at the back of your van ready for your use anytime. Keep half a dozen of these coleman reclining chair, or more, stored in the back of your van in case you will have some other people of your construction company with you out of doors for a quick conference, or even for a quick pack lunch in the field sometimes.

Add a folding bed made of aluminum and nylon matting and some inflatable pillows in case you are benighted in the project site and decide to sleep overnight with the construction crew for some bonding in the field and a few drinks. You might want to develop that gang spirit usually needed for motivation purposes among your people working in the field. Just call up the wife on your cell phone of your decision to spend the night out in the work site. 

Your family can also use those camping chair and a table or two this summer when you take them out for weekend trips to the boondocks for that fresh air the kids have been longing for during the long winter, when they could not go out of the house. The long cold winter months maybe bored them to death, waiting for the warmer months of summer.

Somehow, your kids would also want to know the nature of your job, and the reason why you have to sleep out in the project sites now and then. The boys are curious, especially your youngest son, who says he wants to be a civil engineer like you one day.

Make your camping trips this summer as realistic as possible with your experience of sometimes cooking up your own meals in the work site. Give them an idea of your life in the field in your construction business. They will be very appreciative of your sharing with them your job experience.  

That will surely excite your kids, especially when you give your youngest kid the assignment to cook supper for the family. That will give him quite a thrill, and the pride of becoming like his dad some day.

Mom will surely welcome that idea of relieving her of the job to cook the meals for the kids, as part of the things they have to do in the camp out. Maybe she will prod you to take the family out every weekend, even to your project sites, for the fun, and for the education of the kids on what the life of a civil engineer is like.

Her real reason of course is she will relax herself in those trips, not having to worry about the cooking chore she usually has to do.