Enjoying the Outdoors

Since we homeschool our children, we do not take snow days. Instead, we  take “beautiful days.”  When warm weather comes, we can’t stand to be bent over our books, so we head outdoors. The girls swing, I paint and we just plain enjoy the sunshine. Beautiful days are for heading to the park or beach. Yesterday, Matt, Holly and Hope rescued a little mouse from the clutches of our family cat, Oreo. They made a little home for this poor, frightened creature and fed it Honey Bunches of Oats. Although I love for them to “hurt no living thing,”  I did make them keep that little guy outside. Good thing, too, because this morning, he had escaped.