The Mindful Homeschool

In honor of my birthday, we took a mini-vacation last weekend.  We stayed one night at a lovely cottage “treehouse” in Wisconsin.  It was awesome.  Everything we wanted it to be and more.  But no real easy way to describe it.  The treehouse cottage was built into a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and it took 86 steps from the parking lot to our cottage.  And it was one of the closer cottages to the parking lot!  The other cottages would have required even more climbing. 

The cottages overlooked the Mississippi river and the views were gorgeous.  We didn’t see any bald eagles from the windows of our little home away from home but outside we did see wild turkeys and my dear husband saw bald eagles flying high above the bluff.  It was magical.

I cannot wait to go back and spend more time there.   The only downside was that the accomodations were a tad expensive and so it was hard to justify staying there more than one night.  That was one of the main reasons we have never gone there even though we have known about these cottages for about three years.  It just seemed so extravagant, especially for our family.  But vacations are so important for the health of a family, I do believe.  It is what the children remember when they are grown up.  W had a hard time leaving, I think.  He and the other children really wanted to stay longer.  That was the only bummer on the trip.  Leaving.  But I told the children that we would come back.  I just need to figure out when and how.  Celia has requested that we go back for her birthday which I am considering.  She said that she would want to stay two nights because she will be turning double digits this year!  I guess we better start serving more peanut butter sandwiches. 

Of course, I want my dear children to have a much longer vacation too and I plan to work on finding a way to travel more with our kids.  But this was a great start.  It helped whet the appetite for some more family adventures and made me even more cognizant of how much everyone enjoys them.

Now we are thinking about taking the kids to see Mount Rushmore.  I have never been there but I have heard good things.  That would make for an awesome family adventure, I do believe.  In preparation for the trip I plan to do a lot of reading about the great presidents and the history of our country.  Educational and fun, now that’s a good thing!