A few months ago, I bought a Groupon for Blue Heron Cruises. Now it's time to use it and we'd love for you to join us. We're doing a 90 minute nature cruise through the Cheatham Wildlife Natural Area. Here are the details:
Friday, June 22
Depart at 1 pm
$11/Adult
$9/Children 2 - 12
Children under 2 are free
There is space on this boat for 14 more passengers, so we'd love for some of you to join us! Let me know if you're interested or call Blue Heron directly and give them the date and time of the cruise. You can reach them at 385-7007.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Zoo Tomorrow
While I still have a few arrangements to finalize, here's the tentative plan for tomorrow:
Meet at the zoo at 9:00
Pack a lunch for picnicking
Hang out until between noon and 1:00 (or whenever the girls or I get tired)
Let me know via a comment here or on Facebook if you're planning to join us so that I can wait for you. By shortly after 9, we'll go into the zoo and wait for others who might be a little late near the monkeys.
In case you're new to Nashville or aren't regulars at the zoo, here are directions and admission info.
If you don't have my cell number, let me know and I'll get it to you before tomorrow morning.
Hope to see you soon!
Meet at the zoo at 9:00
Pack a lunch for picnicking
Hang out until between noon and 1:00 (or whenever the girls or I get tired)
Let me know via a comment here or on Facebook if you're planning to join us so that I can wait for you. By shortly after 9, we'll go into the zoo and wait for others who might be a little late near the monkeys.
In case you're new to Nashville or aren't regulars at the zoo, here are directions and admission info.
If you don't have my cell number, let me know and I'll get it to you before tomorrow morning.
Hope to see you soon!
Sunday, June 3, 2012
This Summer's Schedule
Much to my daughters' collective chagrin, we made lists today and drew one per week of summer to determine our Fun Jar activities for upcoming Fridays. While they far prefer the old school method of drawing an activity at the beginning of each week, summer feels so short this year that I insisted we plan ahead.
Here's the tentative schedule:
June 8 - Nashville Zoo
June 15 - Adventure Science Center
June 22 - Percy Priest Lake
June 29 - Dragon Park or Beaman Park
July 5 or 6 - Berry Picking
July 13 - Cheekwood
July 27 - Brushfire Pottery
August 3 - Frist Center
August 10 - Percy Priest Lake
For each of these activities, I'll post details including a time to meet as the date approaches. (This Friday, we'll meet at the Zoo at 9ish. More to follow in a post later this week.)
Mark your calendars and join us when you can!
Here's the tentative schedule:
June 8 - Nashville Zoo
June 15 - Adventure Science Center
June 22 - Percy Priest Lake
June 29 - Dragon Park or Beaman Park
July 5 or 6 - Berry Picking
July 13 - Cheekwood
July 27 - Brushfire Pottery
August 3 - Frist Center
August 10 - Percy Priest Lake
For each of these activities, I'll post details including a time to meet as the date approaches. (This Friday, we'll meet at the Zoo at 9ish. More to follow in a post later this week.)
Mark your calendars and join us when you can!
Friday, June 1, 2012
Family Trip Tips
As you may have read on my other blog, we've been on a family vacation to Philadelphia this last week. There are a few things we did that worked... and a few things that didn't. For the sake of future family trips (both yours and mine), I thought a quick recap might be in order.
Things that worked:
Play License Plate Bingo
The night before we left, I created three license plate bingo sheets for our daughters. Each was different, with some states that overlapped and some that were unique to their sheet. The rules were similar to traditional bingo - when they saw the license plate from one of their states, they marked it off on their sheet. When they got a bingo, they got a prize (in our case, one piece of Rollo candy). A super bingo (all 25 squares) yielded a bigger prize (which I never had to decide since no one achieved it).
The girls loved this game. It made them engaged instead of bored, helped them see and enjoy the scenery instead of staying stuck in a book and made the time pass quickly. Even after days of travel, they were still looking for that elusive Washington, DC plate. For another trip, I might do a Car Make and Model Bingo or a Businesses Bingo.
Pack Snack Bags
I packed each girl's lunch box with a variety of snacks and treats before we left Nashville. If your children are like mine, they require regular snacks and there's no way we're pulling over every time they get a hunger pain. So I filled their bags with granola bars, baggies of dried fruit, peanut butter crackers, fruit strips, jolly ranchers and sprees. When they asked for a snack, I almost always said yes, unless we were stopping imminently for a meal.
Limit Electronics
Each girl was allowed to bring their iPod and we gave about an hour of iPad time to each girl over the course of the drive up and back. But there were no movies, no DSIs. Just License Plate Bingo, books, music, Mad Libs, graphic novels, taking photos of the scenery and talking. Since we limit electronics at home, this method works much better for our children than spending a long ride watching movies. TV tends to wind them up and make them restless, whereas these activities engage their minds.
Do What Your Kids Love
Before we left home, I checked reciprocity with some of our favorite Nashville memberships. Cheekwod's website listed botanical gardens by state that offered reciprocity and when I went to the Morris Arboretum website, I knew it was a place we would love to visit. I also checked for what our zoo membership and museum membership offered, but I think it works well to prioritize. My girls would choose Cheekwood over the Nashville Zoo or the Frist Center most days, so it seemed right to me to make a comparable place a top priority. This is not only good financial sense (since reciprocity normally offers a discount or free entrance), it's a wise use of your time.
Be Flexible
Philadelphia is a long way from Nashville. Had we pressed on, packed lunches and driven through the night, we might have taken an hour or more off our drive. But I don't think it would have been worth it in the long run. Instead, we stopped for lunch and ate at a hole-in-the wall local place, picnicked at a rest area, took a driving tour of a college campus and visited a Tractor Supply Co. store or two (for Jason, of course). These stops made Virginia more than just a state we drove through to get to Pennsylvania, let the girls burn a bit of energy and kept everyone relatively interested and engaged on the ride. As someone who grew up in a family that stopped only for fuel and restroom breaks, this is something I've had to learn works best for my family. The quickest drive is not always the best one for us.
What Didn't Work:
Stacking Activities
I have a tendency when traveling to want to be efficient in our sightseeing. We'll be downtown? Let's see Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell and the Betsy Ross House before we go to dinner with friends and after we've attended service at Christ Church. This does. not. work. Children get tired. They get cranky. Then everyone is unhappy. I needed to remember that vacations are not about efficiency so much as enjoying yourself. For the record, we never did make it to the Betsy Ross House...
Eating Out Three Meals Per Day
Thankfully we rented a town home via VRBO, so once we got to Philadelphia we were able to have breakfast and some dinners at home - and even pack our lunch a few times. This certainly helps your vacation budget, but it's also simply what our family prefers. We don't eat out a lot, so by the time we were on day 2 on the way up to Philadelphia, we ate a picnic of hummus, carrots, apples, etc. instead of having sandwiches or burgers. This may not work for the drive home since a week of vacation left me tired and not in the mood to pack a lunch for the drive back.
For Next Time:
Candy Money
Our girls don't get a lot of junk food, so when we stop at gas stations on road trips, they are in awe of the assortment of candy available. This time around, Jason and I made a stop-by-stop decision about whether to let them each select something. Next time, I'd like to give them each $5 at the start of the trip and let them decide how and when to spend it. This gives them more control while simultaneously limiting the amount of junk food they can consume to $5 worth of gas station items.
Things that worked:
Play License Plate Bingo
The night before we left, I created three license plate bingo sheets for our daughters. Each was different, with some states that overlapped and some that were unique to their sheet. The rules were similar to traditional bingo - when they saw the license plate from one of their states, they marked it off on their sheet. When they got a bingo, they got a prize (in our case, one piece of Rollo candy). A super bingo (all 25 squares) yielded a bigger prize (which I never had to decide since no one achieved it).
The girls loved this game. It made them engaged instead of bored, helped them see and enjoy the scenery instead of staying stuck in a book and made the time pass quickly. Even after days of travel, they were still looking for that elusive Washington, DC plate. For another trip, I might do a Car Make and Model Bingo or a Businesses Bingo.
Pack Snack Bags
I packed each girl's lunch box with a variety of snacks and treats before we left Nashville. If your children are like mine, they require regular snacks and there's no way we're pulling over every time they get a hunger pain. So I filled their bags with granola bars, baggies of dried fruit, peanut butter crackers, fruit strips, jolly ranchers and sprees. When they asked for a snack, I almost always said yes, unless we were stopping imminently for a meal.
Limit Electronics
Each girl was allowed to bring their iPod and we gave about an hour of iPad time to each girl over the course of the drive up and back. But there were no movies, no DSIs. Just License Plate Bingo, books, music, Mad Libs, graphic novels, taking photos of the scenery and talking. Since we limit electronics at home, this method works much better for our children than spending a long ride watching movies. TV tends to wind them up and make them restless, whereas these activities engage their minds.
Do What Your Kids Love
Before we left home, I checked reciprocity with some of our favorite Nashville memberships. Cheekwod's website listed botanical gardens by state that offered reciprocity and when I went to the Morris Arboretum website, I knew it was a place we would love to visit. I also checked for what our zoo membership and museum membership offered, but I think it works well to prioritize. My girls would choose Cheekwood over the Nashville Zoo or the Frist Center most days, so it seemed right to me to make a comparable place a top priority. This is not only good financial sense (since reciprocity normally offers a discount or free entrance), it's a wise use of your time.
Be Flexible
Philadelphia is a long way from Nashville. Had we pressed on, packed lunches and driven through the night, we might have taken an hour or more off our drive. But I don't think it would have been worth it in the long run. Instead, we stopped for lunch and ate at a hole-in-the wall local place, picnicked at a rest area, took a driving tour of a college campus and visited a Tractor Supply Co. store or two (for Jason, of course). These stops made Virginia more than just a state we drove through to get to Pennsylvania, let the girls burn a bit of energy and kept everyone relatively interested and engaged on the ride. As someone who grew up in a family that stopped only for fuel and restroom breaks, this is something I've had to learn works best for my family. The quickest drive is not always the best one for us.
What Didn't Work:
Stacking Activities
I have a tendency when traveling to want to be efficient in our sightseeing. We'll be downtown? Let's see Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell and the Betsy Ross House before we go to dinner with friends and after we've attended service at Christ Church. This does. not. work. Children get tired. They get cranky. Then everyone is unhappy. I needed to remember that vacations are not about efficiency so much as enjoying yourself. For the record, we never did make it to the Betsy Ross House...
Eating Out Three Meals Per Day
Thankfully we rented a town home via VRBO, so once we got to Philadelphia we were able to have breakfast and some dinners at home - and even pack our lunch a few times. This certainly helps your vacation budget, but it's also simply what our family prefers. We don't eat out a lot, so by the time we were on day 2 on the way up to Philadelphia, we ate a picnic of hummus, carrots, apples, etc. instead of having sandwiches or burgers. This may not work for the drive home since a week of vacation left me tired and not in the mood to pack a lunch for the drive back.
For Next Time:
Candy Money
Our girls don't get a lot of junk food, so when we stop at gas stations on road trips, they are in awe of the assortment of candy available. This time around, Jason and I made a stop-by-stop decision about whether to let them each select something. Next time, I'd like to give them each $5 at the start of the trip and let them decide how and when to spend it. This gives them more control while simultaneously limiting the amount of junk food they can consume to $5 worth of gas station items.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Advent Week 1
I think it's lovely that our country celebrates Thanksgiving right before Advent. While I doubt this was an intentional tie-in to the liturgical calendar when the holiday was established, I think it may be God's provision for a country whose material blessings stand firmly in the way of seeing our need for God. For this reason, we're going to start our Advent with a natural segue from Thanksgiving.
Read: The Glorious Impossible by Madeline L'Engle
Do: Make a care package for someone you are thankful for. Include a Bible verse or other words of encouragement, something you have made (art or a baked good) and anything else you want. This hits all five love languages: you are serving the person by making them a care package, satisfying their need for touch by sending them a physical package (and hand delivering it when possible), encouraging them with words, spending your time on them and giving them a gift.
Read: In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti (we will read this aloud together). After reading the poem, we'll listen to the Shawn Colvin version of the song.
Do: Psalm 119:76 tells us that God's unfailing love will be our comfort. Bleak days make us long for comfort. Make hot chocolate mix to give to others for comfort on a day when they need it.
Read: The story behind the creation of Silent Night and The Legend of the Fourth King. I read The Legend of the Fourth King for the first time yesterday and loved it. I'm not sure how I've gone this many years without reading this lovely book, but it was touching, thought-provoking and a great story of what it might have been like to have been one of the Magi.
Do: Silent Night was a gift not just to one congregation on one night, but to many people for years to come. The magi brought gifts to the baby Jesus. Make homemade marshmallows to go with the hot chocolate mix you made yesterday.
Read: Isaiah 43. Then re-read 43:1. Make a list of the names God has for you. On a separate page, list the names of your family members. List a few other names you have for each of your family members.
Do: Cut strips of construction paper or craft paper. Put some of the names of God on the strips and make a paper chain. Keep the extra strips and add to the chain as you go through Advent and learn about other names of God.
My daughters have a Tuesday tutorial that will meet the first two Tuesdays of Advent, so we'll start with four day weeks on our Advent plan. I offer this as both explanation and encouragement. If you're like me, I'm trying desperately to make Advent a spiritual, not commercial, journey for my family. But we still have other obligations (and lots of them). My hope is that by starting small, we can carve out just parts of our days to really focus on what matters. Because my hope is that if we take just nuggets of time, God will call those lessons to our minds and the minds of our children.
I want to encourage you to do only the portions of this Advent plan that sound fun to you. If it feels like a burden, it will be a burden. If your children are young, pick pictures books to read instead of a 19th century poem and a 20th century folk tale. Do what works for your family. (And be sure to let me know what works because I might want to borrow your idea!)
May you have a Blessed Advent!
Day 1
Think: How does Thanksgiving prepare our hearts for Christmas?Read: The Glorious Impossible by Madeline L'Engle
Do: Make a care package for someone you are thankful for. Include a Bible verse or other words of encouragement, something you have made (art or a baked good) and anything else you want. This hits all five love languages: you are serving the person by making them a care package, satisfying their need for touch by sending them a physical package (and hand delivering it when possible), encouraging them with words, spending your time on them and giving them a gift.
Day 2
Think: Why does Christmas come during the winter? What can we learn from this?Read: In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti (we will read this aloud together). After reading the poem, we'll listen to the Shawn Colvin version of the song.
Do: Psalm 119:76 tells us that God's unfailing love will be our comfort. Bleak days make us long for comfort. Make hot chocolate mix to give to others for comfort on a day when they need it.
Day 3
Think: How does God use us to give his gifts to others?Read: The story behind the creation of Silent Night and The Legend of the Fourth King. I read The Legend of the Fourth King for the first time yesterday and loved it. I'm not sure how I've gone this many years without reading this lovely book, but it was touching, thought-provoking and a great story of what it might have been like to have been one of the Magi.
Do: Silent Night was a gift not just to one congregation on one night, but to many people for years to come. The magi brought gifts to the baby Jesus. Make homemade marshmallows to go with the hot chocolate mix you made yesterday.
Day 4
Think: December 2 is the feast day of Isaiah.Read: Isaiah 43. Then re-read 43:1. Make a list of the names God has for you. On a separate page, list the names of your family members. List a few other names you have for each of your family members.
Do: Cut strips of construction paper or craft paper. Put some of the names of God on the strips and make a paper chain. Keep the extra strips and add to the chain as you go through Advent and learn about other names of God.
My daughters have a Tuesday tutorial that will meet the first two Tuesdays of Advent, so we'll start with four day weeks on our Advent plan. I offer this as both explanation and encouragement. If you're like me, I'm trying desperately to make Advent a spiritual, not commercial, journey for my family. But we still have other obligations (and lots of them). My hope is that by starting small, we can carve out just parts of our days to really focus on what matters. Because my hope is that if we take just nuggets of time, God will call those lessons to our minds and the minds of our children.
I want to encourage you to do only the portions of this Advent plan that sound fun to you. If it feels like a burden, it will be a burden. If your children are young, pick pictures books to read instead of a 19th century poem and a 20th century folk tale. Do what works for your family. (And be sure to let me know what works because I might want to borrow your idea!)
May you have a Blessed Advent!
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Advent Journal
Celtic Advent starts today - allowing a full 40 days of preparation, just as Lent gives us 40 days to fast, pray and await the celebration of Easter. Here's what Celtic Daily Prayer says about Advent:
I spent some time yesterday purchasing and preparing Advent Journals for myself and my daughters. Maybe you think journals are for writing your thoughts or feelings. Maybe you read "journal" and think "a book that will lay beside my bed and convict me when I don't write in it every day." While I've found in recent years that I love to write, I've never been a big journal-keeper. I think one reason for this is that I felt like a failure if I didn't journal every day. I'd like to encourage you to throw that concept of journaling into your mental trash can.
A journal can be so much more. Let it be a place to:
I wanted my journal to be all mine - not just an off the shelf purchase. So I bought a composition notebook and covered it front and back in Christmas colors. My daughters weren't interested in doing this, so they have comp books with graphics and words about peace and love. I'm slowly learning to let my children take the lead in their own creating. If they want to collage, great. If not, that's fine, too. That doesn't mean I shouldn't do what my heart is telling me to do. It just means I don't have to put my own desires onto them.
Whether you're crafty or not, a fan of journaling or hate to hold a pen, think about giving an Advent journal a try.
Advent is traditionally a time of preparation for Christmas. It is said that the door to the stable where the Christ-child has been born is very low - and only those who kneel find access. Being ready for Christmas should mean that our thoughts are focused not just on letters, cards and presents, but on repentance, humbling and interior housecleaning... This involves removing any boulders that stand in the way, and filling in any potholes. The boulders are the things we have done that we should not have done; the potholes are the things we have failed to do which we obviously should have done. The more, as individuals, family or congregation, we are focused in this way, the less we will be overwhelmed by the commercialization of Christmas.
I spent some time yesterday purchasing and preparing Advent Journals for myself and my daughters. Maybe you think journals are for writing your thoughts or feelings. Maybe you read "journal" and think "a book that will lay beside my bed and convict me when I don't write in it every day." While I've found in recent years that I love to write, I've never been a big journal-keeper. I think one reason for this is that I felt like a failure if I didn't journal every day. I'd like to encourage you to throw that concept of journaling into your mental trash can.
A journal can be so much more. Let it be a place to:
- Record the ways you are preparing your heart, your home, your community for Advent
- Keep your favorite Christmas cards of the year
- Remind yourself of the little gifts that come your way every day of Advent
- Look for the joy, peace and hope that Advent is about
- Transcribe sweet or funny sayings from your children
- Draw
- Sketch
- Paint
- Write
- Collage
- Pray
I wanted my journal to be all mine - not just an off the shelf purchase. So I bought a composition notebook and covered it front and back in Christmas colors. My daughters weren't interested in doing this, so they have comp books with graphics and words about peace and love. I'm slowly learning to let my children take the lead in their own creating. If they want to collage, great. If not, that's fine, too. That doesn't mean I shouldn't do what my heart is telling me to do. It just means I don't have to put my own desires onto them.
Whether you're crafty or not, a fan of journaling or hate to hold a pen, think about giving an Advent journal a try.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Advent Series
How intentional are you about Advent? Do you take time to stop, breathe and pray during a season when the world tells you to go, buy, do? As a mom of three whose birthday falls in December, I'll be the first to admit that Advent can be crazy. But I'm convinced it doesn't have to be that way.
So I've started planning early this year:
I'm hopeful that advance planning and a willing heart will make this an Advent to remember. Even more importantly, I hope this will be an Advent that lays a foundation for building future Decembers and everyday faith. I hope this Advent will be one that keeps us focused on others and eagerly anticipating not just the celebration of Christ's birth, but his return.
Would you like to join us? Many of the activities we're doing are easily adaptable for your homeschooled children, your preschoolers or as after school activities for school aged children. In the past Fun Jar has been largely about getting your children out of the house during the heat of summer. For Advent, it will be about using the time you have with your children during this season to turn their hearts (and your own) toward Christ. You can join us if you live in Nashville. Or anywhere else. For families that are local, we may have an opportunity or two to get together. Stay tuned. And let me know if you're interested.
Here's my plan: I'll post our Advent plan the Friday before each week of Advent. Use what you want. Add your own twists. Participate only on the days that work for you. Do Tuesday's activity on Thursday. This experiment is not about following the rules. It's about listening to your heart.
So I've started planning early this year:
- Instead of a Christmas card, we'll continue a tradition started a few years ago and mail a Thanksgiving card and letter.
- My semi-annual birthday party will be held the weekend before my birthday, when we have fewer Nutcracker conflicts.
- The homeschool schedule will be cleared of history, science and grammar. We'll carry on with math and learn about the feast day of Isaiah and saints like Thomas Merton, St. Nicholas, St. Lucia and Our Lady of Guadalupe. We'll wrap up auto-biographies and biographies for literature, and spend time reading The Gift of the Magi, Kringle, The Glorious Impossible and other words that help focus our thoughts and minds on Advent.
- Catalogs are pouring into our home. Many of them go straight into the recycling, but this year I'm holding on to ones from Soles 4 Souls, The Heifer Project and Samaritan's Purse. My daughters will get a gift allotment each week of Advent and then they'll choose an organization (or two) to bless.
I'm hopeful that advance planning and a willing heart will make this an Advent to remember. Even more importantly, I hope this will be an Advent that lays a foundation for building future Decembers and everyday faith. I hope this Advent will be one that keeps us focused on others and eagerly anticipating not just the celebration of Christ's birth, but his return.
Would you like to join us? Many of the activities we're doing are easily adaptable for your homeschooled children, your preschoolers or as after school activities for school aged children. In the past Fun Jar has been largely about getting your children out of the house during the heat of summer. For Advent, it will be about using the time you have with your children during this season to turn their hearts (and your own) toward Christ. You can join us if you live in Nashville. Or anywhere else. For families that are local, we may have an opportunity or two to get together. Stay tuned. And let me know if you're interested.
Here's my plan: I'll post our Advent plan the Friday before each week of Advent. Use what you want. Add your own twists. Participate only on the days that work for you. Do Tuesday's activity on Thursday. This experiment is not about following the rules. It's about listening to your heart.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Sprayground Pics
We had a great time at the sprayground today and it provided a much needed outlet for my children. They started the day fighting and we would have gone stir crazy without this outing!
It was great to see the assortment of friends who met us there - if you haven't been to the sprayground, check it out. It's at 620 9th Street, just south of Shelby Avenue.Our next outing will be next Friday and we're heading to the Anderson Road beach area at Percy Priest lake. Details to follow....
Monday, June 8, 2009
Purity Dairies Thursday, May 11 at 10:00
Purity's tours for tomorrow are full, so we'll tour their ice cream factory Thursday at 10:00 instead. If you are free and would like to join us, please let me know by Tuesday at 3:00. I'll call Purity then to give them a firm head count for how many will be coming.
If you want to check out location, here are directions.
It's honestly probably better for me that we do something Thursday instead of Tuesday since our week was filling up with other commitments! Sometimes things work out in spite of my planning not because of it!
If you want to check out location, here are directions.
It's honestly probably better for me that we do something Thursday instead of Tuesday since our week was filling up with other commitments! Sometimes things work out in spite of my planning not because of it!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Nashville Sounds Night Thursday, July 9
J and I went to a Sounds game this week and while we were there, it occurred to us how much the girls would enjoy a minor league baseball game. I thought it would be a fun departure from our normal daytime fun to have a Sounds night together. That way, the whole family can participate!
In looking at the schedule, the best date for us is Thursday, July 9. Game time is 7 pm and since this day is a Faith Night, there's a concert beforehand. Thursday's are also fireworks night, so if you're able to hang on to the end, that will await you and your family.
Your Part: Let me know if you want tickets and I'll buy all of the tickets so that we're seated together. Let me know by July 1 if you want tickets. I'll let you know closer to the outing about a meeting time and meeting place.
In looking at the schedule, the best date for us is Thursday, July 9. Game time is 7 pm and since this day is a Faith Night, there's a concert beforehand. Thursday's are also fireworks night, so if you're able to hang on to the end, that will await you and your family.
Your Part: Let me know if you want tickets and I'll buy all of the tickets so that we're seated together. Let me know by July 1 if you want tickets. I'll let you know closer to the outing about a meeting time and meeting place.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Tuesday, June 9 Fun
I've put a call in to Purity Dairies to see about a tour next Tuesday at 10:00 or 11:00. We'll need to get out of the house for a bit and I thought this would be a great morning activity. Maybe we'll end up with cute ice cream faces like these:
Let me know if you'd like to join us so that I can give Purity a head count when I hear back from them.
We'll also be doing some morning fun on Friday, but I'm going to wait until the girls are back in town to make a firm decision as to what that will be. Look for details later...
Let me know if you'd like to join us so that I can give Purity a head count when I hear back from them.
We'll also be doing some morning fun on Friday, but I'm going to wait until the girls are back in town to make a firm decision as to what that will be. Look for details later...
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Friday, May 22 Fun
With school ending this Thursday, I thought it might get the ball rolling to have a fun jar activity this Friday. We are leaving Saturday morning to go to the beach, so I think something easy is my best option.
For anyone who's available, let's meet at Centennial Park at 11:00 to play. I am thinking the playground to the right of the Parthenon as you face it from West End. We'll bring a picnic lunch and plan to play until 1:00 or so, when I'll need to head home to finish cleaning and packing. There are picnic tables nearby and if we want to walk over and look at the Parthenon Frieze, we can. (This is probably more interesting to me than most people since I was an art history major. If we spend the whole time playing at the playground, I will not be offended!)
Right now the weather calls for isolated thunderstorms, so I think we'll be OK weather-wise. My cell is 496-9995 if you can't find us or if it's raining and we want a back-up plan.
If you've subscribed to this blog via Google Follow, can you post a comment so that I know you received this? I just want to make sure it's working since I've not used this gadget before.
Happy Summer, everyone!
For anyone who's available, let's meet at Centennial Park at 11:00 to play. I am thinking the playground to the right of the Parthenon as you face it from West End. We'll bring a picnic lunch and plan to play until 1:00 or so, when I'll need to head home to finish cleaning and packing. There are picnic tables nearby and if we want to walk over and look at the Parthenon Frieze, we can. (This is probably more interesting to me than most people since I was an art history major. If we spend the whole time playing at the playground, I will not be offended!)
Right now the weather calls for isolated thunderstorms, so I think we'll be OK weather-wise. My cell is 496-9995 if you can't find us or if it's raining and we want a back-up plan.
If you've subscribed to this blog via Google Follow, can you post a comment so that I know you received this? I just want to make sure it's working since I've not used this gadget before.
Happy Summer, everyone!
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