Overdrive

We said we were going to take it easy this weekend.

Instead, we went to Old Sturbridge Village on Saturday and Mystic Seaport on Sunday. We had our usual wonderful trips to both places, with stick candy and horse-drawn carriage rides at each place. Plus crafts for mommies and kids, music, and children's playspaces. A good lunch, a nap in the car for 3/4 of us on the way home. A pretty good weekend.

While going to OSV on Saturday was not a surprise, going anywhere on Sunday, especially after being out the day before, was. But it was a beautiful day. And we knew that one of our favorite parts of the seaport, the Charles W. Morgan, would soon be in dry-dock for 3-4 years. Not being sure if we'd get to see it again before it was off-view--our fall weekends are already booking up--I suggested we try it.

That, and I wasn't sure I could play "teacher" to their school day yet again. It's good practice, for all of us, but some days it's harder than others. We've gotten the game down: put the new lunchkits in their "cubbies" on the piano bench, have writing/art time, the read a story in circle time, snack, recess, go home. Ad infinitem. But at least it makes them happy, right?

Of course, going to both Sturbridge and the Seaport (which was Sis's suggestion Sunday morning) was another way of making these "last" weeks before school as fun as possible. I think I'm establishing a dangerous habit. By college, I'll have to take them to the moon!