Showing posts with label Cantigny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cantigny. Show all posts

Sunday, November 13, 2016

back to our regular scheduled programming


Some time to reflect on the last week and share some things that have made me grateful.
 No time to be depressed when you are happy for what you have.
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having more time to art journal and learn more scripture to aid in my mental health mess. God loves taking a mess and making it into something beautiful.

flowers I bought myself. Self care is important you know right?

a trip to Cantigny for the last time until next year. This is one of our favorite places to go due to the location and price however they are doing renovations and the tanks and museum will be down until next summer.
 
doggies all dressed up nice for Halloween...

 
 
not more damage to my oven or myself when I had burst a pan in the oven. I had not put enough water and it made the glass get hot enough to shatter.  This experience was  good bonding time with Koda as she helped me clean before it all glued and baked to the bottom of the oven. 

hearing Nanners read...


cuddles with Magnar as the other dog watches on....

one of the running jokes in our house was you weren't truly crazy until you were seeing pink elephants in the room. One weekend I took a trip to Springfield to see a crunchy friend from a Facebook group and sure enough I past Pinkie. I had to do a double take of course as it is bad enough to see a pink elephant but one that drinks martinis and wears glasses...

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

a golden afternoon

 Alice:
You can learn a lot of things from the
flowers, for especially in the month of
June. There’s a wealth of happiness and
romance, oh...

Flowers:...the golden afternoon!




Although its not June quite yet, I felt it was close enough. to tie in the end of our botany unit study we chose to go to a local favorite. Cantigny is a small war museum on the property of Robert McCormick who made a ton of political and influential improvements in his time. This location has huge gardens, 30 tanks for the kids to climb and enjoy and tours of his home.












The kids love the tanks crawling under and on top of them. I view it as a great proprioceptive activity and an exciting change.