A good day to be "home" schooling: It's gorgeous out. Let's clean up the breakfast dishes, have Elisabeth read me a story and do a quick phonics lesson, a few tangrams, then grab a picnic lunch and water and a blanket (okay, this part took a little longer) and get out the door. Drive to Jones State Forest and go on a beautiful nature walk. For me the day was perfect. Blue sky, birds singing, sound of cars only faintly in the distance, wind in the trees. Cute kids walking along the trail. I was surprised by all the stubborn roots that kept tripping up little Henry. He was pretty tired out after a few hundred yards down the trail, and asking for lunch at 10:30 and to be carried. But every time there was a little foot bridge he would walk. Of course I didn't get any pictures of those because I was afraid he'd fall off or in (some were just boardwalks to help manage drainage but one was a really cool pipe bridge with a 15 foot drop and no sides of any consequence....