A lovely afternoon in Marion. Grace, Whit and I arrived around 1:45 and set up shop. I read my Google Reader for an hour while they ran around naked in a sprinkler in the back yard. Then we headed to Annie’s (Parlow Mill Farm, a local farm where my mother gets vegetables weekly) to pick up Nana’s vegetables and flowers. The photograph is taken outside the barn where we picked up our stuff, Grace holding the flowers and eating the divine fresh raspberries. It’s when experiences like this are cause for delight that I am proudest of my children. They wanted to wander around the barn, look at the homemade swing (oh, evil mother wouldn’t let them go on it as they were already buckled into the car), and taste the raspberries and homemade bread.
We swung by a brand-new Target for new Legos and then came home for more puttering. Grace and I assembled both Whit’s Star Wars Lego and hers of a monkey, and then had dinner on the porch before tubs & Scooby Doo. It is a beautiful evening and the ceiling fan is making me very happy right now. Early to bed and then off to the Roger Williams Zoo tomorrow to see Schuyler, Ankie, and Kara and everyone’s children!