adventure and travel to discover the unknown and uncommon…with kids
It’s one of the biggest controversies of the Christmas season. Real tree vs artificial tree. Everyone has an opinion. And then there are sub-controversies. If you go real, do you cut it down at a tree farm of pick up a pre-cut tree from a road side stand? If you go artificial then do you get the tree pre-lit or add the lights yourself? It’s a lot of decisions to make at such a busy time of year! Continue reading “real or fake? a Christmas controversy”
“Mommy, I think we’re going to have to live here!”, my daughter cried as we realized that we had been in this spot already. We were lost! Not only were we lost but we appeared to be walking in circles. My son pointed out a rock that we had passed two previous times. I looked up at the sky. The once blue sky had grown cloudy and threatened rain. I wondered just how many hours had passed as we wandered, heads to the ground, hoping to find our way. Our map was useless. Huge parts of it were missing, providing us only pieces of where we were and needed to go. We came to a fork, the path split in three different ways. My two older kids fought over which path to take. I was pretty sure one of the trails looked familiar. We had traveled on it during some of our wanderings. My husband ended the argument by stating that we would take the third option. Skirting a mud puddle, we continued our journey. “This is crazy” I thought and yelled up to the girl sitting on the deck high above us, “Hey, can you give us a clue?” Continue reading “purposely lost”
It’s fall, time for kids soccer. Time for the intense competition. Time for the intricate footwork. Time for teamwork and one goal after another. Okay, who am I kidding, this is kindergarten soccer after all. The one thing I am guaranteed is entertainment! It’s an age where kids have absolutely no idea what there are doing, but have fun doing it! They don’t care and that is what makes kindergarten soccer so great and so much fun to watch. The following is a list of what happened during one of my son’s soccer games. Seriously, it all happened during one game.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I love this quote! To really feel alive we need to step out of our comfort zones and dare to do the difficult. My greatest fear is that I will get lost in the mundaneness of life, the “gray twilight”. Sure it’s easier to live a safe and comfortable life, but where does that take you? Only through challenges and struggles and difficulties and successes do we grow and truly feel alive!
Lancaster County PA, aka Amish Country. This summer we went on a long weekend to visit the area. I have to say I struggled with planning for this trip and struggled with our activities while we were there. It was just not my normal vacation. But, I do feel like the trip taught me some lessons about myself and how I operate! Continue reading “amish country lessons”
Ever have one of those days where everything is perfect? The weather, the company, the location, and activities. You look back at the end of the day, tired and happy, and think “wow, this is a day I will always have with me! This is a day that makes all the difficult things of life worth it.” As much as we would like to, these days cannot be planned. They just happen organically. That’s part of what makes the day so special; you just can’t put a finger on exactly how it happened or even why it ended up being so unique. It will never be recreated other than in your mind again and again during the mundane or hard times in life. Continue reading “blue moon and the jersey shore”
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