Sonlight Garden: Monticello and UVA

July 14, 2012

Monticello and UVA

Day Two

On day two of our trip we went to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. We loved this place. We took the "family friendly" version of the house tour and enjoyed it so much. Our guide was great with the children. In some of the rooms the children sat on the floor and looked around for clues. In one of the rooms the guide had talked about how Thomas Jefferson's daughter Martha and her family had come to live with him. When she came to live them she had eight children. The guide exclaimed "Can you imagine that many children! And then she had three more. Can you imagine that many children running around here!" Terry and I looked at each other and chuckled. Great tour. A little pricey for the amount of time we got to spend in the actual home, but I am so glad we were able to see this. Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant man. They also had some hands on activites for the children and a hands on discovery center. We learned a lot that day.

We also went to the University of Virginia. Our nephew R. just graduated from there. His senior year he had the privilege of living on the lawn. R. was out of town when we visited his family so we took a picture of us in front of his old room. Behind the professors housing were these beautiful gardens. It was so fairy tale-ish.

That wraps up day two!

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Hi, my name is Kirsten. I am married to my best friend and we have nine awesome children including our little saint in heaven, Thomas Joseph. We are Catholic, loving, living, and learning about our faith every day. We just moved to a fixer upper farm here in beautiful Kentucky. We also homeschool some of our children. I really enjoy COFFEE, reading, gardening, running, and knitting. I try to enjoy, laundry and cleaning bathrooms and sweeping floors. But what I really love is to be home, with my husband and children, living this life. This blog is where I write about the good stuff (mostly). Thanks for stopping by!

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PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH THE WORKMAN Composed by Pope St. Pius X O glorious St. Joseph, model of all those who are devoted to labor, obtain for me the grace to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my natural inclinations, to work with gratitude and joy, in a spirit of penance for the remission of my sins, considering it an honor to employ and develop by means of labor the gifts received from God, to work with order, peace, moderation and patience, without ever shrinking from weariness and difficulties, to work above all with purity of intention and detachment from self, having always death before my eyes and the account that I must render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, of vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God. All for Jesus, all through Mary, all after thine example, O Patriarch, St. Joseph. Such shall be my watchword in life and in death. Amen.

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