Well, we just got back from a fabulous long week-end up in the County hanging out with my family. I love Love LOVE going "up home" in the fall. It was actually kind of a weird week-end. Literally, one day we were 4-wheeling in our tanks and flip flops and stopping for a wade/swim/fall in a river, and the next day we were huddled around our campfire in jeans and hoodies. Weird. But so like the County that I love. You get a little bit of everything when you go up there! It was so nice. So slow. So much time with my parents and time for the boys to bond with Grampy and Grammy.
Just a few highlights of our trip: KADEN LEARNED TO RIDE A BIKE!!!!! It was amazing. We went on tons of beautiful 4-wheeler rides, had lots of campfires and smores, slept in every day because the boys crawled into bed with Grampy and Grammy instead of us!, visited my old church family, caught and released a skunk from Dad's live trap, watched movies late into the night, saw extended family and friends, brought home lots of nature to play with, visited a little Amish store and got a rockin' salsa recipe I'm going to try this week, and just thoroughly enjoyed stepping back from life for a wee little bit.
And now!!!
We are home to a gangbuster garden where the tomatoes and cukes are ripe and needing to be made into salsa and spaghetti sauce, relishes and pickles; boatloads of laundry because the kids get every speck of clothing filthy when we go up home; a chicken coop to muck out; much wood to be brought in and stacked; and a new week of school to start.....with slightly exhausted and overtired boys....but it was SO worth it!
Happy Labor Day, friends!
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