A Visit to the Pumpkin Patch

           I had a little too much fun with my children today. It was our turn to go to the pumpkin patch and play. The weather was prefect! It was windy and cool with some clouds in the sky. The prefect Fall day! There were leaves blowing from the trees. We spent all morning there and they had everything to do. They had a hay hill and hay tunnels built. They also had donkeys to pet and two hayrides to ride on. There was 5 adults and 5 children. The farm even had a wooden toy train and tractor we (the kids) could climb on and play on. They took turns driving the tractor. It was so much fun!
            It was so fun seeing the children just running around and playing. They had smiles on their faces and wanted to do everything twice or more. We even brought each of them a pumpkin to take back. They each got a white, yellowish looking one, not the normal orange one. It was also fun because we got to have a picnic on there on the farm. We brought snack lunches and sat at picnic tables. The children really enjoyed that too. They were all sleepy when we got in the van and fell asleep probably within 5 mins. down the road.
            The hayride was fun! We went through a "forest" (around a square) and it was decorated with Halloween things on one side and FairyTales on the other. The children even got to see where the pumpkins came from, some corn stocks, and small strawberry plants that they were growing for next year. They also had a corn maze but we didn't do that part of it.
            I'm writing this so it will be a memory for me so there isn't much to say. How can you write out a thing like this moment with the children so you can remember forever? You can't. It just amazes me that for most of them it will be their first and only time. It is moments like these when we actually go and make the memories with the children that I like best about my job because really if you think about it those memories, even with your own children, are the memories you will remember and have pictures of forever.
            I'm done explaining how today went. For the most part, you just had to be there and see everything and everyone's faces. It is the little and simplest things that count the most and I see that everyday in this job.