the lovely thing about being out by yourself, is that one feels a little safer about letting kids play outside by themselves.  i didn’t feel so great about that anywhere else we’ve lived.  i love the girls having the opportunity to run, jump, play tetherball, four wheel, and now they’ve started building forts in the forest.  we even tested our labradoodle to see if she was very smart, and held her while the kids ran off into the woods.  then i’d let her go, and she would enter the forest where they did, and track them down!  so amazing!  i love the outdoors, and am grateful that my kids get to play outside more.  it’s healthy and important to be in nature, get exercise, and most importantly, using your imagination!

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”  Albert Einstein

[slideshow]