Veteran's Day Family Time

Well, I hadn't plan on today being much of anything but a day off from work. It turned out to be a fun family day for us. In the morning we decided to see if a yard sale would fly or not. The kiddos waved a flag that we had for sale. Got lots of horn honking and waving but also some takers of our stuff. Yeah!!! More ridding of stuff. The kiddos and I went to hunt for postcards as we are doing a postcard swap on yahoo groups to find out more about other states. We went to our local Kmart and asked at the customer service desk if they had postcards. To our surprise, they didn't have any to sell but had some collecting dust in the back and gave a bunch to us for free. What a blessing!!! We then went to the library which was surprisingly open today. We got a second blessing. The new book, The Lost Hero, was in. Afterwards we drove a short distance to go for a walk on the Pacific Crest Trail near our town. We had walked it before twice in one direction but decided to see what there was to see in the other direction. We got our third blessing! The other direction was even more fun and beautiful. We got to do homeschool science by seeing lots of critter poop/scat and tracks. Heard a hawk in a tree and saw antelope on the drive home. With some of the money we earned earlier in the day we bought pizza for dinner and ended a great day with Mom reading to the family from The Lost Hero. Sometimes not planning turns into great and fun family time plans!