One of the things I know about myself is that I LOVE watching my children head outside for adventuring, especially if the adventuring can happen in the woods.  I long for a day when our backyard (these photos are actually from a friend’s backyard) is filled with woods, leaves, sticks, flowers, things to find, places to hide, wildness and freedom.  I don’t know when that dream will come, and I do hope we can live in that place while our children are still young, but I know I want to be that mom whose homeschooled children are able to whip outside the house on their own, into our backyard woods, and learn about the things of nature.  I’m holding the vision.