every child needs to visit a farm...or two

It's an annual tradition in the South to take your children to a working farm in the Fall. Usually preschool or kindergarten classes make this an annual fieldtrip but this Fall our family decided to pick up the slack of the school system and do it ourselves.
Pumpkin picking, hayrides, petting animals, hay and corn mazes...this is what the start of the Fall season is all about.






It's funny how I always get emotional when I visit a farm. I start thinking of how I would love to buy some land and build a house (or move into an older farm house to fix up)and get away from the suburbs. How quiet it is just listening to the trees blow in the wind and the insects chirping. All the open land for the kids to run and not worry about the neighbor's property a few yards over. But like most people I have grown spoiled by living in the city; being down the road from Kroger and a gas station is just too convenient. Just a few minutes from our church or the university has made me lazy. Being able to leave as late as possible to get the kids to school is just too easy. Maybe one day we will move out there...away from it all. Maybe it will force us to slow down a little, to plan ahead more, to stay together longer. Maybe we'll even get a few sheep, a dog and some baby chickens! If so I'll invite you over when Fall officially begins and we'll go on our own hayride!