Skip to main content

Visiting My Grandpa's Woods

This past Tuesday we decided it was a great day to take the kids out to my grandpa's woods for the first time. It's really not my grandpa's anymore. He died in 1999 and my children never got to meet him; the land now belongs to my uncle's family. However, in my mind it will always be "Grandpa's woods".

As a child I spent many hours playing down there with my cousins, then as a teenager taking long walks with my family. Vince and I even cut our very first Christmas tree in those woods. They have a very special place in my heart.

We went with my parents for a picnic and a little fishing and just had so much fun simply hanging out there. The weather was perfect and I loved just looking around at the familiar sights that I hadn't seen in nearly 13 years. I hadn't been there since my grandpa died and I could almost see him out there just tinkering around.

The kids had a wonderful time, exploring and even catching a couple of fish! That day will be tucked away in my memory as a treasure-filled family moment.

I think we'll go back again soon!


Labels:

Comments

Gwen T said…
Gorgeous pictures - the scenery's not too bad either! :) We've been doing a lot of fishing lately too - what sweet memories with the kids!
October 14, 2010 at 10:07 PM
Amber said…
How fun! LOOVVEE the fall colors peaking through the trees. Looks like a grand day!
October 15, 2010 at 3:14 PM
Ellen said…
My parents have built a house across the road from where my mother grew up and where I spent so much time growing up, myself. Even though that house now belongs to my cousin, it will always be Grandmother and Papa's house to me.

It's precious to go back and visit special places, and even better to take your children along.
October 15, 2010 at 4:03 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Reading Game: A Review

I was excited to receive this review product recently, thinking my 1st-grade-son could really benefit and enjoy it a lot. And I was right! He is having so much fun with this game. The Reading Game is a fast-paced memory card game using words. The game comes with 6 sets of memory cards with 6 corresponding readers. The idea is for you and your student to play memory with each set of cards (playing 6 rounds with each set), after every 2 rounds your student then reads 2 test sentences to see how he is retaining the new words he is learning. After the whole set has been played, he is then ready to read the corresponding reader...and has learned 30 new words! By the time your student has played every set of cards and read every reader, he will have learned 180 words. Of the 25 most common English words, 23 are on that list; of the 50 most common words, 42 are on that list. So this little game of reading really does prepare your student well. The readers are illustrated with cute ...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Making of an Egyptian Death Mask

We are learning all about the ancient world this year with Story of the World I and loving it! We've been learning a lot about Egypt, of course, which is completely fascinating. Most recently we have studied the New Kingdom of Egypt, which includes the story of King Tut. So we decided making an Egyptian death mask in the style of King Tut's would be a fun project. First since it was too cold at the time to paper mache in the garage (it probably would have frozen instead of dried-ha) and it was too messy to do it in the house, we decided to pick up a couple of cheap craft masks at Hobby Lobby. Next we cut out cardboard shapes to complete the shape of the death mask, attaching them with hot glue. Vince even put a little detail on the *beard* with the hot glue per The Princess' request. Then the kiddos started to paint them with this metallic gold tempera paint. It worked okay for the cardboard, but would not coat the plastic of the mask. We thought maybe a second coat ...
23 comments
Read more

Door Hanger Chore Charts

My kids have had a chore chart for a while.  It's one of those magnetic boards and they share it.  However, it's not by their rooms and often they (and I) forget to update it.  Plus it's a little bulky.   When I saw the concept of a door hanger chore chart on Pinterest, I loved it!  It was compact, right there were the kiddos could see it coming out and going into their rooms, and it costs almost nothing to make.   I headed over to one of my favorite stores: Hobby Lobby, of course.  They  have these little wooden door hangers for .79.  I also grabbed a couple of packets of decorative buttons for $1.99 each.  I already had the clothes pins and the paint so those cost me nothing.   I began by painting the door hangers (I used tempera paints because that's what I had).  Then I grabbed a fine point Sharpie and the clothes pins and started writing chores on them, making sure to write them correctly so they will ...
17 comments
Read more