No School Day

After waking up at the usual early weekday hour and getting into the morning routine, we realized Ooops! No school today! Fortunately it's a gorgeous day outside, clear amber sunshine and crisp blue sky. So what do the kids want to do? They want to play... School.

So we had Art Time







a nature walk...
taking a look at what's edible on the cattails this season...


pondering mushrooms...
and wondering at these blackberries, way too late in the year to ever ripen

portrait with a gorgeous old oak...


a little tree climbing...



And every school has to have recess (this school allows rollerblades)


A skinned knee or two didn't stop the frolicking...





The weather is finally cool enough for my daughter to consent to wearing the hat I made her - I used this great tutorial from Cheri at I Am Momma - Hear Me Roar. Sure, she called'em Boy Hats but they translate perfectly into girly cuteness too!

Once we'd worked up an appetite with all the exercise, we were ready to tuck in to some grub - luckily this school makes their chilimac with grassfed beef and sprouted beans, so we could be like the cool kids and have Hot Lunch today!

So what was the point of this whole post, all these (probably really slow to load) pictures... well some days it's so hard to get up the motivation to just Do Things... it would be so much easier to plant the kids in front of another episode of Max & Ruby ... I know! So I'm hoping this little story of our day might help the next time you feel out of steam and out of ideas. I'll probably have to read it over myself, cuz those Totally Fed Up And Frazzled With Cabin Fever winter days are coming up (winter break, anyone?).