A Little Time Away

Hello, friends! We recently made a little trip to see the fam. While there, The Engineer got to hang an heirloom...a chandelier that's been in the family for a very long time. (Might I add that he re-wired it prior to hanging! 'Cause he rocks like that!)

Out went the ceiling fan and in went the chandelier...that I neglected to take a picture of.

The children spent time with their great-grands.

Sister even did a little reading for Grandpa.

I think he was impressed.

After our visit with fam (which also included Mama taking me and The Engineer to see Les Miserables - WOW!!! My favorite book ever and now my favorite musical ever. I sobbed. So precious. So touching!), we headed to Vidalia, Georgia, where The Engineer worked for the week. Little Bit hung back with the grands. Major blessing!

Sister, Little Man, and I spent a few hours one day on a ranch. The kids got to grind corn and feed birds.

We got a wagon ride behind a tractor...

We got to feed buffalo. Uh-huh. They were really that close.

Check out that tongue. Your eyes aren't fooling you. It was green. Little Man was a bit too fearless for me... and the owner, who grabbed his hand to assist.

We got to feed deer.

Sister was a natural.

Little Man, on the other hand, curled his fingers when feeding them and got a little nibble, so the kind folks at the ranch stepped in to assist, once more.

Their website said they treat you like family. They weren't kidding. Little Man found a golf ball near the garden and asked for a lesson...and got one. I got a lesson on growing tomatoes...and we got to see a lot, lot, lot of animals. All in all, a fun afternoon!

While away, we continued to school. 

Lunch in the hotel room is always a hit, as is "cable tv." (Which makes me think of the word tee vee, like it was spelled in The Help, which was fantastic, read it until 12:30 two nights in a row...)

Here the children are each holding a piece of twine cut the length of a cubit (approximately 18"). 

They used their twine to measure out the size of Noah's Ark...I could not get over how big that boat was!!! Seeing it marked off like that was phenomenal. Amazing. It really put it in perspective.

Little Man is working on capital and lower case letter recognition, as well as their sounds. 

And Sister just keeps rocking right along.

The highlight of our time away was probably the indoor pool.

The Engineer always makes life so much more exciting. The move you see above is Little Man's "spinning cannon ball." He both named and invented it himself.

By the end of the week, he'd almost perfected it.

Trips like this are wonderful. It is such a blessing to get to travel as a family. Our children have seen and experienced so much in their short lives thanks to the traveling The Engineer has gotten to do, and the fact that we've been able to pack up and go with him. I'm so thankful for these times away. It's a break from cooking, a break from cleaning, a break from stuff at home calling my name. It gives me uninterrupted time to focus on my babies. I am so thankful we get to homeschool... and pick up...and go when we want/need to.