September Fun

September Fun

We've been having great luck with the weather for several months now. Seemingly all of our rain has come during the week and the weekends have been very pleasant. So we've been having a lot of fun outdoors.

The third weekend in September was Carol's birthday. On Saturday I took the girls to the Middlesex Fells near home for a few hours to leave Carol alone. We revisited one geocache that we had found previously and also found a new one. If you're not familiar with geocaching, people create "caches" containing a log book and some trinkets, then hide it and publish the coordinates and a description on a geocaching web site. Using a GPS device, one can go looking for them. When you find one, you leave a trinket that you've brought and perhaps take one that you like from the cache and sign the log. It's a great thing to do with kids.

On Sunday, Carol's actual birthday, we served her the traditional breakfast in bed. The girls set the menu: green eggs and ham. I couldn't figure out how to make green ham on the spur of the moment, but the eggs came out great.

At midday we went geocaching again, this time in Breakheart Reservation. We had a very pleasant walk in the forest and found two caches. There was a third that has apparently been "muggled" - taken by the uninitiated.

Sunday afternoon we had a bunch of the neighbors over for Carol's birthday party potluck. Carol had slaved for hours to make her favorite chocolate cake. We had a lot of fun.

For her birthday I got Carol one of her favorite things: a Lego house kit. She spent the next week putting it together with the girls after school. We now have a whole Lego village in our living room. Except Charlotte says we still need a grocery store.

We are more than a month into school now. Audrey is making great progress on reading and math in first grade. And Charlotte greets Carol every afternoon with "I love school!"