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round the fire

By on December 4, 2011 in Do something Saturday, Kids

 Cool and cold evenings are here finally!  This means it is bonfire time.  During the cold months we are out stoking up a fire whenever we get a chance.   Tonight the weather was perfect.  It started out cool enough to need long sleeves but by the end of the night all the girls were pointing our freezing toes towards the fire.
We roasted hotdogs, ate baked beans and chips.  We ended up with a few belly aches in the pursuit of the perfectly roasted marshmallow.  The kids were all blackened with soot and plenty dirty by the end of the night.  It was a wonderful night full of laughs and singing and a few charades.  These are the nights that I hope they will remember and thankfully we have had so many of them.  I am so thankful for this little space in which to capture all of these moments on our path as a family.
What did you do this weekend.  Come back Monday, I will be posting the tutorial on how to make the crocheted Santa Lucia crown which is the same way we make our advent and Christmas wreaths.
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outside please

By on October 7, 2011 in Kids

 can you follow the ball?

it’s blue, do you see it now?

It is fall, it really is.  On my walk today I saw so many different colors of leaves on the trees (in Florida we don’t get the glorious colors the rest of the country gets but right here in my town we get a little more than most Floridians.. I love it.

We want to just live outside right now.  In a rocking chair, in the hammock or picnic tables under the oaks or playing baseball on the front lawn.  Umm…you guys make sure you are hitting the ball towards the forrest and not towards our front door or windows please! 

Our four rocking chairs on the front porch are constantly ocupado!  Kids are in and out of the front door, baseball gloves, bikes and sneakers are strewn all over the front porch and gardens. Even the chickens have decided that front porch is their favorite place…that reminds me, I better sweep all the mulch they threw everywhere back into the garden before Poppa sees it. 

Olivia (in her natural playing state of dirtyness) was enjoying her apple when she spotted Rooster and Hen (also known as Mr and Mrs Duck) getting in on the front porch action and had to go investigate pester the poor ducks and chickens.  Those two really think they are chickens.

I have been preparing for our return to Saturdays Farmers Market so I had to force myself back inside to continue at the sewing machine (I promise I will share what I have made when I am done).  The fall breeze calls me and taps on the kitchen window, I snap myself out of my autumn daydream and get back to work and then a child looks into my eyes with the question. Momma, can’t you come outside for a little while?? and I realize

Everything I want right now is outside please.

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