Well we are moved in and just about settled. I have unpacked everything that I think we need and left the rest in boxes. Our little house is cute (I deleted the pics of the house by mistake so I will have to retake them tomorrow in the daylight.) The neighbors seem nice and the boys have already made friends. I know to some this seems perfect and for now it is great - but I still want to move to a more rural area eventually where we are not so close to our neighbors. I want those chickens! and a big garden! For now we are exploring our new town

Yesterday was a Columbus day fair up at the park behind the library. It was alot of fun and I talked with a woman and her family. She is originally from Italy and has only been here since March. We started talking when she was asking me about my sling and has one for her 3 month daughter but is not sure how to use it . My sling has gotten a lot of attention around here. Not too many have seen any thing like it. 

We saw the tail end of  a magic show and a bellydancing show. The library is huge here. It has a cafe and a preforming arts theater inside the building. With the park right behind it - I see many days spent here. 

Today we went to the Savannah River old canal lock. It was a beautiful day and we discovered this great place only minutes from the house.  

The river

family photo
The old Canal lock operator's house which is now a visitors center
sweet sleepy baby
the canal
we found an area off the canal with a small waterfall and lots of rocks to play on. 





There is also a small playground that we checked out. Adeline loved the swing

and fun on the slide with big bro - sorry for the sideways video.

Our little sanctuary

Wow - so much has happened these last couple months. We left the beautiful state of Ct and all our wonderful,amazing friends behind. Headed to Florida where my awesome parents let us stay with them while Tony looked for a job. Not 1 and 1/2 weeks after we left CT he landed a great job in Augusta,GA. We were all pleasantly surprised to say the least. Being unemployed for a year was taking its toll on everyone and we were not sure what was going to happen to our little family. Tony went ahead of us to GA and for the past month had been commuting back down to Florida on the weekends. After searching he found us a cute little house to rent just outside Augusta (more on that in the next post), we packed up again this time saying goodbye to my awesome family and wonderful friends to head to an unkown place. 

In Florida we were lucky to be a part of a Waldorf co-op that met 2x a week. We learned some new songs, made blackboards and knitting needles, learned the recorder and did some watercolor paintings. We were also lucky to take part in some programs at the local Waldorf school that only goes up to K. They offer a first grade Fairy Ring" that I dropped Ryan off at on Thursday and Friday. It was wonderful to see him take to it so well. His teacher had good things to say - his teacher by the way was his playgroup leader when he was 2 and is also a part of the co-op. We had such a wonderful community our short time there. Needless to say it was most difficult to leave it all behind to head to an area where there are no Waldorf schools in site. Finding homeschool groups has been a challenge here. I will keep my eyes out and in the meantime look forward to heading back down to Florida to see my parents and attend the Waldorf festivals that are so important to me. 

I will always have my little sanctuary though - well at least as long as my parents do not sell their little condo on the beach: 

Good bye Florida - Hello Georgia. 

Learning a Little about Florida History

Last Monday we headed back to St. Augustine for homeschool day at the Old Florida History Musuem. It is a living musuem that takes you through a Timicuan long house, a Spanish house and Colonial times - A walking time line of Florida history.

At the spanish house we tried our luck at one of thier games. It is very similar to checkers. Ryan also got to dip candles. It reminded me that I want to do that at home sometime soon! We use many candles throughout the year.



Ryan dressed as a Spanish Conquistador .

Digging for fossils.

Ryan the leader of the Timicuans : )

Grinding corn before he became head of the tribe. Gotta pay your dues.

Despite the incredible heat that day, we had a lot of fun.

For Daddy - see you soon

Baseball in the Fall?

Yep! down here in the south, you can do that. Ryan was so excited to be on a team and this Sat was his first game. He is on the Yankees and is number 3, which I found out was Babe Ruth's number when he was on the team.

1st base man

Getting ready to run home!

Of course there was ice cream for all after the game!

family

Just some random shots of the family

Adeline in her favorit spot these days

wanting to know why I always have this cup

meeting Madison for the first time, her cousin who is 2months younger than her

just a cutiepie

exploring the pond

Grandpa and his 2 youngest granddaughters

Ahh - Adeline loves her brother

Adeine and her bigger cousin Emily

Adeline and Madison

all 3 girls (and one mommy). shhh don't tell Ryan that Adeline is wearing his owl shorts I made him. They make great pants for her!

St Augustine

Last week I Took Ryan to his first homeschool field trip here in Florida. We went down to St. Augustine for their 444th birthday. The Foutain of Youth park was holding a re-enactment to demonstrate the Timucans history. This was Ryan's first trip there.

We learned about Ponce De Leon and tasted water from the Fountain of Youth - humm, I feel younger all ready : )



The Timucuan village was nice and here they had a living history display and we learned alot

from this guy - he told us how the Timucauns were larger than most people,probablly due to the spring water here and the food they ate. He told of other interesting things too but Adeline was getting fussy so I had to take her out for awile.

Ryan stayed and listened. He was intrigued.

I like the big plastic shark

Peacocks were running wild there. Such beautiful feathers.

There was also a pirate flag down near the river which lead to a discussion about pirates and looking through our pirate book at home. Then lead to buying pirate fabric at the fabric store
to make a pirate costume. I love when things naturally progress this way.