Nature Explorers

Today the kids became official “nature explorers”. Armed with compasses and magnifying glasses they set out on a great adventure at the local nature center. They followed the clues and met some new friends (Pictured below). In addition to a corn snake and Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, we saw a snapping turtle, an opossum (known primarily in the south as a “possum” and a nightly visitor to our back deck), a beaver, several bald eagles, owls, hawks, vultures, and many other bugs, butterflies, fish and turtles.

First Day of School--End of the Day Edition!

The good moms bring a camera and take a bright shiny (smiling) photo of their child on the first day of school, perhaps standing outside the door of the classroom just waiting to go in and begin the school year. The bad moms (or the ones with a sly sense of humor) bring a camera at the end of the first day of school to capture a tired cranky kid at the end of that first day.




I'm not tired!