The boys and I went on a field trip with the homeschool group this morning. It was to Lincoln’s New Salem which is a town Abraham Lincoln lived in before he was president. Once we arrived the boys started listing all the times they’ve been here. Some with Grandma, some with me, many I didn’t remember but I was thankful that they did. The weather was absolutely perfect on this almost 80 degree day.

The leaves are falling now. I was entranced walking the sidewalks and taking pictures of the colors. We have these opposing characteristics where it seems like every good trait I have is balanced out with a negative that is somehow connected. Sometimes the trait that grows depends on the environment, so that what’s considered negative shrinks and the positive grows or vice versa. But sometimes they seem to grow together.

We didn’t stay for the picnic. The Athens Blacktop which forms the main road to get to New Salem is finally open again for driving. Every so often they block a part of it off for construction which turns a strait line into zig zag out in the country. Abraham Lincoln is my favorite present because he seems to have been a nice person. He also had a hard life and hard decisions to make as president but he did his best.