That time of the year

It is that time of the year once more, when nature gets really magical; when we try to take as many pictures as possible to capture the wonderful display of beauty nature reserves for us once a year. It is all about bright colors right now and weather is almost perfection; fall season is peaking around Madison. It is a short season though, really only a few weeks before trees get all naked and wintry looking. This prelude before winter really hits town, is just too short for us, the ones who love fall.

Grandma is about to arrive to Madison and she will spend her birthday here. That’s another magical thing happening. As you might know, she lives many many miles away from us and having her in town is a big deal for our family. This year she’ll be trick or treating with D, -so excited about that too.

Trying to be out as much as we can these days and very aware of the fact that at some point during the winter we get bad cases of cabin fever, so play-dates, bike rides, weekend outings, whatever, but out of the house. As pretty as they are, Midwest winters aren’t easy sometimes.

We went to busy barns this past weekend. It has become an October tradition. We invited our little friend Lucy and it was a lot of fun. If you live in the area or you are visiting Madison and have kids, I highly recommend this very cool farm. Lots of things to do and many baby animals to pet.

Some pictures to share.
Enjoy the rest of the week. We are in a countdown to Sunday, when grandma arrives.

Kindergarten

It seems we have finally found a school we really like for D. to start elementary school next fall. I know, it seems so early to start the process, but in order to pick the school we really wanted we needed to start this early. What a relief. What a big relief. We toured at least 10 schools in the last 2 months. In our district, out of our district, public schools and private schools, charter schools and whatever's left in the middle, and somehow there was always something that didn't click to me when touring all those schools. All of them -btw- with very high scores and super nice reviews, but still, there was something that didn't convince me. It happened the same to me when I was looking for preschools for D. two years ago. I visited many, until I went to one that felt right to me instantly, it felt right in my heart. And that was how I felt yesterday morning when we visited the very last school in our list to tour, it felt right. I liked the school, thank God, I liked

Copenhagen

I've had this city in my mind for a while. Never been there, but every time I research about trips to Europe I bump into a Copenhagen article, link, photo and I get more and more interested and excited about this city. In pictures it just looks like the kind of city I like. Here my inspiration for today Friday, a few photos of gorgeous Copenhagen. All photos by: littlescandinavian.com (one of my favorite blogs). Happy weekend. Healthy and peaceful.

Worth taking a look

some new findings I adore. 5 blogs I just discovered. (all the pictures belong to the blogs featured on this post) mynotebook-moa.blogspot.com http://littlescandinavian.com/ http://mylittleday.fr/blog/ http://abutterflyinyourhouse.blogspot.com/ http://kidshaus.typepad.com/kidshaus/

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