Well yesterday we got out for our last field trip in Illinois. Jamie got to go with us because he got "bumped"(union thing) off his job here. We don't know where to next. Well hold on I will come back to that.
We went to New Salem IL. The state restored the village. It is where Abe Lincoln lived before moving to Springfield IL. So neat. Alot of it was closed but there were signs on every house telling about it. There were a couple of people in costume there. One was a guy in the general store. He told us all about the things that they used to sell there. Amazing! Almost every house there had a fenced in area next to it. I thought it was for keeping small livestock in. Nope. It was to keep the pigs and chickens that roamed the town out of the gardens that they planted there. It so amazed me how simply these people lived! If you needed something most of the time YOU made it. The lady working in the tavern was talking to us about what the people then expected out of their kids. Every child had important responsibilities in the family(way more than making their bed and feeding the dog)and it made the kids feel important and part of a family unit. Not like today we all feel and operate like individuals living in the same house. A normal birthday gift for a 3yr old boy was a little hatchet. She also said that the daughters could pretty much run the house by 9 or 10yr old! Wow! I so need to step it up with my girls! What an amazingly simple yet hard working life to live!!
So we are returning to KS tomorrow. We are going to Grandpa and Grandma's house until we figure out where to next. Jamie will call on Friday. It looks like we will be able to get in on a field trip on Friday with our home school group. They are going to a dairy farm. Fun! We will get to see most of our friends!
Well please pray about where God would have us go next. We still want to go with Jamie. But we have to stay in one spot because Jamie says he will not pull the camper in the snow and ice. Party Pooper!
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