Funny thing- my kids spent most of the afternoon hanging out with Jenny the Potter!  Some other kids had gotten a little too touchy feely and there were a couple of spoiled bowls from the set she was making right there before our eyes, so she let my kids play with the clay.  She was so very, very cool and laid back about it.  She's really into encouraging kids to get into pottery and teaches community ed classes and stuff- she's almost worth the drive down to Minneapolis to do such a thing!  Anyhoo- while I was standing there asking here about getting the kids into it, another mom with several kids in tow came up and mentioned something about a place further north she had heard of that did that sort of thing.  Her friend had gone with a homeschool group there... she asked if we homeschooled... why, YES!  as a matter of fact we do.  Then she started looking more intently at my children, saying they looked so familiar... I asked if she went to many of the Kelley Farm events- she said yes, but didn't remember seeing us there.  Then the light bulb moment- "Are you Ali?!?"  Why, YES, I am! "I recognize you from your blog!"  Teehee!! Squeal!!  LOL!!  "I'm (insert HSB identity I can't remember!)" (used to be justamom, but started new blog)
What a fun small word!  She remembered my kids faces from my banner!  Anyway, a long time back after I had mentioned something about knitting, she had e-mailed me about wanting to learn to knit, and finding someone to teach her... then a couple months back I e-mailed her about maybe coming up/over to my "First Fridays Knit Night" some month... and it didn't work on her schedule that month, maybe sometime soon... and then- TA-DA!  There she was- turns out she doesn't live very far away and she has a couple kids near in age to a couple of mine... is this a small world, or what?!  Hopefully the schedules will work and she'll be able to make it out to one of our knitting nights!

Well, we've been trying to pluck along in our botany book, and we took a little minitrip down the road to the county park with our co-op-ing friends to take a little nature walk.  We checked out all the wildflowers that had grown since the last time we went- what a difference in the landscape!  We brought along our "Wildflowers of Minnesota" book and had fun identifying some wild lupines!