A Day Off

A Teacher In-Service Day can be the longest day ever for a stay at home mom, but today I decided it wasn't going to get to me. The girls were playing so well together that we almost did nothing but play at home. I actually got some laundry done (oh how glamorous I am) and organized Evie's sock drawer (yay me for being so productive!) but by one o'clock the girls were at each other's throats. So what is my solution? Go to a pumpkin farm!

They opened a new nature park for kids, which was fabulous. I want to do so many of these things in our own back yard!

They had tunnels to climb through and on, nature trails, tree houses, logs and boulders and cut log mazes, and of course slides, swings and monkey bars. Rich Farms got this park just right.

I would love these in my own yard:

A cute storage/play cabin for the girls (I would add doors and windows).

An awesome log maze. I would make this near the pond for our turtles.

After about a half hour here, the hay wagon returned to take us back to the pumpkin farm, and all its glory.

As you know, bouncy houses never get old.

Maisey was King of Hay Mountain.

I can't resist these things. Neither can the girls.

Evie wanted the biggest pumpkin in the patch.

The girls insisted on painting their pumpkins pink.

With such interest in all things pastoral, it makes me think we really should buy a farm.