In March the school babies had a week off for Spring Break. Grandma and Grandpa came to visit for a few days. We headed over to the SAC Museum for an afternoon.
Archive for the ‘Getting out’ Category
9th Day of Christmas
Friday, January 11th, 2019
The 9th day of Christmas. Today Phil took the babies to the zoo and I had a long day out to myself.
Our Thanksgiving Night
Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
This year we did something completely new for Thanksgiving. With older babies and such lovely weather we braved an outing downtown to witness the Thanksgiving Lighting Ceremony, kicking off the Holiday Lights Festival.
Happy Camper – Hitchcock Nature Center
Friday, November 2nd, 2018
It’s no secret in my family, I am not a camper. As Jim Gaffigan puts it, “I’m what you would call ‘Indoorsy.'” He gets me, really gets me.
But as a kid I was outside all the time in the woods and in the creeks catching crawdads and minnows and making secret lairs.
I have so many memories of playing in the woods with my friends, some are nutty memories like the time we all roller skated down to the creek then into the creek and down the creek…in roller skates. Or how I loved to pack up a bag of turkey on Thanksgiving and walk over to the woods to pretend to be surviving on the last bit of meat I had.
My friends eventually decided it was cooler to stay home and watch MTV and VH1 and make up dances alongside Paula Abdul and Debbie Gibson. I kept going to the woods alone sometimes but eventually going to the creek running through the woods was something I did less and less. Sure we’d ride our bikes along the trail sometimes but even that fell by the wayside.
Now as a Mama I want what I had as a girl for my own babies. Woods and creeks and ponds. The thrill of being in a tree or finding that perfect clearing in the trees for making a home. To this day the smell of dirt and leaves make me want to take off running to find a stick for a bow and some good rocks to climb….if I could still run that is.
