Birds of a Feather
Our backyard bird feeder has been a flurry of activity since the “big snow” yesterday.

Our backyard bird feeder has been a flurry of activity since the “big snow” yesterday.
The boys started their morning, picking up where they left off last night: playing outside with Cranium’s Super Fort Building Set. In their adventures, they happened upon a baby bird that had fallen from its nest. They were sad that its life had ended so quickly, but fascinated by its appearance: translucent skin, HUGE…
What an exciting, informative, fun-filled, LOUD night! Connor’s Tiger Cub Den went on a Go-See-It to a local nature center, Hidden Pond Nature Center, in Springfield. Hidden Pond is known for its, well… pond… and the tadpoles, frogs, turtle, snakes, and birds that live there. The boys received a naturalist-led tour of the nature center…
Farm-fresh strawberries, $2.29. A day of play on the farm, free with our CSA membership. Spending time together enjoying the beauty of God’s world… and not just a few extra-sweet berries, priceless! Let our weekly farm-days begin!
What do you get when you put FOUR BOYS and TWO MOMS in a LAKESIDE CABIN in Vermont for ONE WEEK? Hours spent at the LAKE: Endless SMILES. More FISH than you care to take off the hook so it’s a good thing the boys learned to do it themselves: Contagious GIGGLES. And Summertime MEMORIES…
The Saturday before Easter, the boys built a butterfly house at a local Home Depot Kids Workshop. Today, we took advantage of the beautiful Spring weather and invited a neighbor to join us in painting the houses to attract our colorful, winged friends. Butterflies prefer bright reds, oranges, yellows, and purples, so those are…
Tin foil dinners cooked in the open fire, s’mores, skits and songs, sleeping under the stars… well, in tents, but after saying goodnight to a sky filled with stars…. I have such fond memories of camping with the Girl Scouts… and my Mom, who was my Girl Scout leader all the way through Scouts. And…