This is the children's school vacation week and it coincided with G-man being in Phoenix, AZ all week. We've managed to get by with help from Tim-Bob who has been looking after the kids for three days. They are quite happy being with Tim and he tolerates them all very well.
On Wednesday, I had a vacation day so I took the kids to Yankee Candle in Deerfield, MA. It was such a beautiful day to start with and there were very few people there so we were happy Yankees. By all accounts, the outing exceeded expectations and was considered a success. They did all the available activities (candle dipping, make your own jar candle and make a wax sculpture of your hand}.
Santa is in residence all year round there. His toy shop makes Santa a very rich man. There he was at a table setting up to make crafts with kids ($5 to do that) and as soon as Landon saw him he began to half step towards him not sure if what he was seeing was real. He doesn't believe in Santa, but you could see this glimmer of hope in his face- perhaps Santa was real after all! Landon turns to Maura and says "I was right and you were wrong." Nice spirit of Christmas there Landers!!
We saw fudge for sale, I skipped it but it looked amazing. Landon tried to convince me to get the Free Fudge in the bath and body section of the store. I could not see the Free Fudge anywhere. When he finally showed it to me, it was actually handmade organic soap cut into slices just like fudge. I was trying to convince him in return that this was soap and you would not want to eat it. Just then I spied the two older boys laughing like fools and realized they had convinced their poor little brother that it was fudge, free fudge.
Landon is trying to figure out the concept of the future. He will say "this is not the future" waits a minute then says "now it is" and realizes that nah, it's not the future yet. He thought he might have found it tonight when Maura was holding up two mirrors and you could see lots of reflections in succession. He was disappointed that it wasn't the future. So far, no future has been revealed here but that doesn't mean he has stopped looking.
He does know that the future is so bright he's gotta wear shades.
On Wednesday, I had a vacation day so I took the kids to Yankee Candle in Deerfield, MA. It was such a beautiful day to start with and there were very few people there so we were happy Yankees. By all accounts, the outing exceeded expectations and was considered a success. They did all the available activities (candle dipping, make your own jar candle and make a wax sculpture of your hand}.
Santa is in residence all year round there. His toy shop makes Santa a very rich man. There he was at a table setting up to make crafts with kids ($5 to do that) and as soon as Landon saw him he began to half step towards him not sure if what he was seeing was real. He doesn't believe in Santa, but you could see this glimmer of hope in his face- perhaps Santa was real after all! Landon turns to Maura and says "I was right and you were wrong." Nice spirit of Christmas there Landers!!
We saw fudge for sale, I skipped it but it looked amazing. Landon tried to convince me to get the Free Fudge in the bath and body section of the store. I could not see the Free Fudge anywhere. When he finally showed it to me, it was actually handmade organic soap cut into slices just like fudge. I was trying to convince him in return that this was soap and you would not want to eat it. Just then I spied the two older boys laughing like fools and realized they had convinced their poor little brother that it was fudge, free fudge.
Landon is trying to figure out the concept of the future. He will say "this is not the future" waits a minute then says "now it is" and realizes that nah, it's not the future yet. He thought he might have found it tonight when Maura was holding up two mirrors and you could see lots of reflections in succession. He was disappointed that it wasn't the future. So far, no future has been revealed here but that doesn't mean he has stopped looking.
He does know that the future is so bright he's gotta wear shades.
Adam and David participated in "Bring your child to Work Day" with Maria. They went to the CT Science Center in Hartford, Adam got to visit with a Bankruptcy Judge (he thought the Judge was great) and eat pizza, cotton candy and come home with a very nice swag bag. There were lots of other activities but I haven't gotten all the details yet.
Tomorrow Adam will hit the road for McKeesport, PA for a Bible conference. I'll miss him as usual but I'm really happy he gets to go.
Have a great weekend y'all, I might get back on here and post some pics (a friend lent me his very, very nice camera) and I haven't had a chance to download the pics yet but I have quite a few to share.
Maura with her Sacagewea project at school.
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