New Beginnings

Coming soon~Kindergarten updates!
It seems impossible, but another summer is wrapping up!
Hope you were able to enjoy our big, beautiful sunny and warm world with your little one(s)
Here are a few of the O'Duggan's adventures this summer:

• living history working weekend here on our hobby farm~the "Johndezvous"
• My husband's mom moved in .....again
• raised a baby robin, tadpoles, chicks, baby goats, kittens all with varying degrees of success
• Prairie du Chien roadtrip
• began "Kid Kuisine" program assigning each kid a day to plan, prep,cook,clean-up (with help, of course)  Very yummy summer (not saving on grocery expenses,however)
• visited local beaches~Latsch Island, Chester Woods, Whitewater, HokSiLa (Near Lake City)
• caught (and released) fireflies
• picked gallons and gallons of strawberries (need plants? contact me!)
• spent 4th of July weekend in the Dells with ALL 6 kids +Chris and Melissa and Baby Wren...We are 11 now!!!!!!!!
• RV'd to Indianapolis and Madison 
• watched meteor shower and northern lights (well, we looked for them anyway)
• hung out in the hammock, deck, "cat porch", garden, 
• finished 5 books...began Lord of the Rings on my Droid (11% done...LOVE that function on Kindle)
• watched ALL of the Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Firefly, Pushing Daisies, Community series (July was soooo hot, felt good to veg in front of the fans)
• began a new chicken coop...windows and doors from the ReStore
• cut, hauled, stacked wood (lost 3 very old very large trees in a wind storm)
• got our first official burning permit
• still cutting, hauling. stacking wood
• taught 4 weeks of summer school
• Nelson ice cream 3 times (Rum Cherry AND Maplenut)
• Lanesboro road trip
• Mother-in-law moved out.....again
• celebrated 5 of 6 kids' birthdays...Lee's is in December
• Spa day for Sorcha and Ellie, her best friend
• Laser Tag!
• found 2 letterboxes (check out atlasquest.com  and letterboxing.org)  We are getting close to finding 100!
• Ren Fest in Shakopee and King Tut at Science Museum coming up!

I'd love to hear your adventures!

Soon we will have many K updates here so stay tuned!

See many of you at Open House on Wednesday, August 31 from 4-7