We had a fabulous weekend! It started with plans with some friends to go out for pizza at a local joint, then on to an outdoor Bluegrass festival. We saw these amazing clouds on the way to eat. The pizza was fabulous, and the kids had a blast playing Pac-Man while we ate.
We walked from the restaurant to the music, set up our blankets, chairs, and wagon-sofa, and procured some yummy wine for the grownups and ice cream for the kids.
We brought a soccer ball, which turned out to be THE toy of choice for a couple of nearby toddlers. Our friends' daughter had never played with a soccer ball before, and when the toddlers were finally led away by their parents, she started dribbling and didn't stop! She played with that ball for a good hour or more. Unfortunately, the ball went into the road and popped when a big truck ran over it. Leah said she felt like she just lost her best friend!
Max brought his skateboard and practiced a bit on the sidewalk, while Ella brought her Littlest Pet Shop animals and played with those. Alex quickly found some like- minded kids who were playing gameboy and spent a good deal of the evening hanging out on their blanket while they all DSed.
The music was great! We were really excited to get to see The Del McCoury Band. John kept wandering down to the stage with whatever kids wanted to go be a part of the madding crowd. Sophie has wanted to learn to play the fiddle for a couple of years now. She starts tomorrow, so she was really interested in watching the fiddle player.
The Del McCoury Band 
We also had a couple of games of duck-duck-goose. My initial response when the kids asked me to play with them was going to be "no", because I wanted to hang out with my grown-up friend. She is also a dancer and homeschooling mom and we always have a lot to talk about. Anyway, I challenged myself to go ahead and hang with the kids, my friend joined us, and we had a great time. My joining in always helps take the pressure off of the kids to get along on their own, and alleviates some of the arguing and hurt feelings that have been happening lately.We had a gorgeous sunset before the onset of evening. We continued to have a great time well into the night, with all of us heading toward the stage one last time before we left. It was awesome and we all left tired and happy.
2 comments:
Mindy, you are so beautiful. Our neighbor is a fiddle player. I have been hoping that Gillen would want to learn it since he's friends with this guy. Nope. We'll have to bring Sophie over to meet him. He isn't the best or anything but did teach himself at 50.
We would love to meet him! Sophie has just always wanted to play because she loves the way it sounds. She never had any interest in learning classical music/violin, so we've been waiting to find the right opportunity. We found this young guy who plays really old school fiddle. We're meeting him today and he's going to hang with Sophie for a while. She can't wait! Even if "lessons" don't work out, we're getting her a fiddle to fool around with.
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