Today we were spontaneous midday and decided to go to the lake 5 minutes away for a nature walk.  It was so beautiful out - sunny and temps in the 60's which is maybe only the 3rd day or so like this this spring.   We had gotten our spelling done and our math and our lunch and dh was free, so the whole family went.  And we took our colored pencils and our nature notebooks. 

It was so wonderful to see the joy in their bodies as they ran and jumped in the sunshine, celebrating every part of their experience.  Soon after they arrived someone spotted a daffodil and with shouts and thrills they determined each to draw it.  So we parked our bottoms on the grass and opened the backpack with our materials and set to work drawing.  Even Mom pulled out a nature journal for the first time.  It was fun to see how happy they were that I was drawing.  I never have done this with them before, but thought it was time to participate in this part of homeschooling as well.  I thought they all did a great job and then it was on to more exploring - checking on the small pathside pond to see if there were any frog eggs; there were.  And just running through familiar places.

After an hour it was time to go as my little one needed to nap.  But it was a wonderful reprieve in the middle of the day that leaves us all with a special memory.  And leaves me with the determination that we have to do more of this!!!

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