fall showed up in nashville about a whole week ago now!!! and ohhhh. it made for the absolute perfect saturday [not this past saturday, but the one prior!] for a cute little history event going on nearby…
i’m always so fascinated with this 1700s log cabin from our area! it’s usually closed off, but they opened it up for a little history lesson. and oh!!! i have a photo of maddalena on the porch steps of this cabin at age 2. gosh! time flies! i mean… i’m sure the cabin would agree, having seen a handful of centuries at this point, right?
anyway, a family of 11 once lived here in this very dwelling. isn’t that incredible? old homes like this one really make me feel spoiled rotten. and kind of useless. here i sit with very few survival skills in a much larger house [and still relatively not huge at all in comparison to the houses families are living in these days!!] with only three children [instead of, you know… 9] and animals that provide me with nothing to eat or wear. haha!
older time periods truly captivate me, and i’ve always felt very tied to the past somehow. if i had any ability to memorize dates and timelines i would totally be a history buff! but… the numbers, they escape me. oh well!
remember little sheepysheep from her walkabout and following farmhome sheepover? she was reunited with her owner that weekend, and donned quite a beautiful and on-trend necklace bearing the name she acquired having been lost in the bellevue area!
hu. mans. i. a. dore.
maddalena tried her hand at writing with a quill and ink!! howEVER did they do it and exhibit such fine penmanship?! meanwhile, many children aren’t even learning cursive writing these days!!! come on, people. look at this artistry!! we can be skilled once again!!!
then! maddalena and i made a cornhusk doll!!! gosh, these are the crafts we did on little history days in my childhood that i will never forget. i was so excited about this. and she is so cute! i love, LOVE my children getting a dose of how toys were in this time period. handmade. faceless. not from amazon!
i am so wishing i’d purchased that handmade basket with the flowers on it!!
“i’m a sheep. duh.” [a la mean girls ;)]
ohhh, my mother, mother nature. always mothering humans, animals, and plants, hers or otherwise! without her we would… basically perish. no pressure, mom! haha. but it’s true.
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then! the bunners, husband and i snagged some lunch, and regrouped at home for the remainder of the afternoon. following that? a moonlit farm fire!! perfect, given that the previous night’s fire plans were drizzled out. it was a full moon and such a beautiful fall evening!
…splendid! i approve.
Now that is a day of days! Love the kids getting a little history lesson! I actually had a corn husk doll when I was a kid! I am fascinated by the past but I also can’t even like… open a toothpaste container so I figure I wouldn’t survive.