*It is snowing here!!!  Coco and I keep looking out the window to watch.  I made her some hot chocolate in her little starbucks travel mug (our tradition on snow days).  Is it snowing anywhere else today?!

I am just dying to have five of me: one to be a wife and one to be a mom and then one to keep house and one to edit the weddings and respond to clients. And then a fifth one so I can blog about all the wonderful days I have been having and the crazy fun Summer!

At Jamestown, they somehow have created a museum where it truly feels like nothing has changed, as if you are stepping back in time and you can touch and smell and play with everything.  For Jeff it was like he stepped into his history book.

When he was a little boy, maybe three or four, he and I were looking through a nature magazine and I gave him a few of his favorite images, later that day I saw that he had ripped a small hole in the center of one of the images "What are you doing Jeff?" I asked Jeff and he said "I am trying to get into the picture, I will take Daddy and you with me, do you want to come?" In his little world he really believed he could go into the picture. 

A few days before we left for Norfolk, his class had studied Jamestown in depth, so it was really incredible for him to be there and play the part of tour guide.  He loves history and talked to us about every thing he had learned.

*Village blacksmith

Look how young my boy looks in this picture!  It makes me so happy, he looks innocent and all wrapped up in some imaginary world of good guys versus bad guys.

These three pictures are so true to their nature, Jeff is my sweet, deep thinking shy one, so aware of what everyone around him is feeling.   

Eti is my "I don't care who is watching I am going to enjoy this to the fullest!" (He did not know I was taking a picture at this time, he immediately went into "battle mode" when he put the helmet on.)

Coco is my "Do you think I am cute? Here I will do it again!"  full of spunk and drama third child.

A carpenter let Jeff come back and work with him, he was in the process of building one of the homes exactly the way they did it back then, with no nails.

Inside the church.  They had church in the morning and in the evening EVERY day!  If you missed a service you would lose a food ration. The second time you miss a service you would receive a public flogging.  If you missed a Sunday service you could be sentenced to death!

"The best thing to do in life is to explore."  Bonnie Tsang