A Beautiful Wednesday

An absolutely glorious day like today called for an outdoor adventure with friends! xo

Weekending

Oh, friends, we had such a lovely weekend! The weather was glorious and it was one of those weekends that was such a lovely balance of work and play. Our weekend began with a trip to Drumlin Farm for their Tales of the Night event. We had never been before but with the promise of 100 jack-o-lanterns how could we pass it up? The jack-o-lanterns were amazing and the Nursery Rhyme trail was pure fun! Saturday was full of chores and knitting. The final harvest took place and the gardens were put to bed for the winter. Dave worked more on the fence while the girls and I cleaned all the windows. And in between all the chore doing there was much playing and knitting- all done outside, of course. Sunday brought with it the finished fence, pumpkin picking and pumpkin carving (but that's another post all together). Such goodness this weekend, friends, and we hope yours was just as lovely as ours! xo

At The Farm With Friends

Yesterday we met up with our friends from Simple Whimsy. We hadn't been together in about a year but you'd never have known it by watching our girls! They picked up as if no time had passed at all since they last played together (and the same was true for us mamas)! It was a true joy to watch these four sweet girls play and laugh and giggle and talk and explore each nook and cranny of Drumlin Farm together. Before we knew it three hours had quickly passed and it was time to say our "see you soons". Here's to hoping that their move to New England happens sooner than soon and that it finds them moving to our neck of the woods of this lovely region of ours. Thank you, dear friends, for coming to visit us during your visit. We had a blast and are looking forward to next time already! xo

Wordless Wednesday:: At Drumlin Farm

A New Adventure For Grace And Emma

Today was the first day of a new homeschool program at Drumlin Farm.  You may remember that last year Emma was part of the Crickets class at Drumlin Farm Community Preschool.  And while we absolutely adored the preschool and were sad to say good-bye we are so super excited that this new program has begun.  My friend (and fellow Cricket mama) Meredith got in touch with Drumlin Farm to see if they would be willing to run a homeschool program that ran at the same time as Crickets (she has one son who has aged out of Crickets and one son who is still there).  The staff at Drumlin was very excited to be able to do this and thus the Exploring Habitats class was born!  Today was their first day and everyone had an absolute blast (as you can see from the size of the smile on Emma's face in the picture above).  The teacher, Martha, said that the three hours was just not long enough and that she was blown away by our children. She explained that each week a different habitat (pond, farm, forest, meadow) will be explored and once all the habitats have been explored they will go back and check on each of them again to see what changes have occured since they were there last.  Today they went ponding and then after their ponding adventure they went over to the barn to meet the brand new baby calf that was born yesterday.  The girls were so chatty the whole way home about all their adventures today!  And as you can imagine they are looking forward to next week already!  Thank you Meredith for getting the ball rolling on this program!  The girls are over the moon to get to be a part of it!



Groundhog Day

(The picture above is from the Drumlin Farm Facebook page.)

This year was the first year that we attended the Groundhog Day event at Drumlin Farm.  We arrived a little before 9:30am (the time that it was said that Ms. G would emerge and make her prediction) and discovered that many other people were already there.  As you can see from the pictures above while we had a decent spot it was still hard for the girls and I to see what was going on. I managed to get a few good pictures though the one I really wanted of her on her log pile eluded me (thanks to the Drumlin Farm Facebook page for that one)!  After it was determined that there would be an early spring (yay!), the girls and I headed over to the pond house for some snacks and story and craftime.  While it was a chilly, grey day it was still a great way to celebrate! Here's to hoping Ms. G's prediction is right.  After all, if we're not going to have a snowy winter we might as well have an early spring!