I Love Fridays!

The girls and I ran a few errands today and what a sight we had while we were out. With the weather warming up it was a beautiful day. We now mostly take Friday’s off of our homeschooling. We use this day for our spelling and math tests, doing an art project, exploring the outdoors and the nature that surrounds us and definitely a time to hang out with friends. I love this schedule and so do the girls.

Back to where I was originally heading….. so we stopped at a local market and on the way we see several marathon runners enjoying this sunny day. Bless them for the training they did to be able to do that. We head over the hill down towards our historical square which is the hang out for the town. And as usual people are out walking the square and about half of them have dogs and some on bikes, some resting on park benches and others who clearly are from out of town have their cameras out taking pictures of the court house. It was very quiet and I was noticing our surroundings. One store front said “Auctions every weekend,” a realty business said “realtors wanted,” a restaurant said, “great specials.” And a couple store fronts were noticeably vacant showing a sign of our week economy. But I loved what I saw! People out mingling about, talking to each other even if they were strangers to each other (that is how our town is). No one had anything new looking on or even a new bike. Most people here really don’t care about being the top of the crop. That is one thing I just love about this town.

I drive up Whiskey Row surrounded by these old, old and I mean old buildings with old huge trees that are bare awaiting their buds. I just smile and look in my rearview mirror as my kids too are looking out their windows taking it all in. The scenery kind of reminded me of one of the American Girl stories that Kayla and I read together during the time of the revolutionary war.

We stop at the local library which we just LOVE and the girls always stop to check out the progress of the mural that is a work in progress. Shae, the artist herself says, “look at the sleeping dragon, he is so cute.” We run into another one of my homeschool lady friends and her two children and catch up while the kids examine the rows of books and carefully choose their next read. Were done now and head out and how cool to drive down the historical street Mt. Vernon with yet another tree lined street with beautifully old now restored Victorian historical homes with the humbling white picket fences that surround them. We stop by another friends house real quick and then when we got home another friend of ours stopped by and picked my brain a little as she is considering homeschooling her children starting next year. What a great day we had. It is now bed time for the girls and as I read them their bed time story I walk past the puzzles that Shae loves to put together on the floor and just smile. It may be a weak economy but a strong and happy family. Good night!