field trips

We feel like we have a nice situation going on. We have a home based business which, of course, has pros and cons. The number one pro is that both Jeremy and I are home. Since we both work, we developed a nice plan for the summer. Said plan fills the needs of our children whilst filling the needs of our business. One of us works (depending on who has the biggest workload) while the other one is the parent. It's not completely perfect, but it protects against our children running the streets of the neighborhood unsupervised and, for the most part, it works.

Jeremy took the kids on the first field trip of the summer to the Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah. It's a great museum with some really cool exhibits, and is ideal for all ages. Admission is free on the first Monday of the month; if you go, you'll want to get there when they open (9).

The first week of summer, the children prepared a Parks Assessment chart (Zachary created it in excel) so we're trying to go to several parks a week. The kids are keeping track of several items (shown in the chart) including how many slides, if there's adequate shade, type of ground cover, if there is a drinking fountain, and a handful of other important park aspects. So by the end of the summer we should have a pretty good list of the best parks in the area.