Greenville

All is well and very different in these parts.  We have new “temporary” neighbors as of August 24th or so and have been super busy creating, playing, getting to know each other, and figuring out how to live together.  These new neighbors are cousins all the way from Arizona now relocated here in Florida and are searching for a permanent home in the area.  In the mean time, we are all enjoying spending time together and learning together.  They home school as well, so now that fall is officially here, we are in the throes of school as they say.   I’ve enjoyed having the older girls around to help me with Erin and do all the crafty things I like to do.  The first week they were here I think my sewing machine was working overtime.

The benefit to having cousins right next door is the convenient access of  more children for group play and projects.  I introduced them to a favorite book of ours called Roxaboxen.  It is actually set in Yuma, AZ, which is 4 hours from their hometown.  Immediately, they were taken by the familiar landscape and names of the plants in the book.  This book is based on a true story of children playing and using their imaginations to create their own town with what they had on hand.  This story gave the children of Emerald Lane the fuel to create their own town of Greenville.  They worked together and came up with their own version.   Their own Roxaboxen right in the backyard.