Stratford Park

This is the town centre- nice,  huh? Has everything you could need in walking distance from our house

Stratford Park complete with pond, swans, and ducks

and gazebo

and art gallery/museum. Polish paper cutting. Love it.

A is for....
sorry. How old am I?

Each of the rooms in the museum had some sort of little kids' toy relevant to what the room was teaching about, awesome huh?

Inventor of lawnmower- from Stroud

 After the park/museum I had an unsuccessful grocery store trip in search of chocolate chip cookie ingredients. No shortening. No baking soda. I need to just start asking people more. When I got home I asked the lady we live with about it and they just call things by different names. Shortening= cooking fat. Baking soda= bicarbonate of soda. And the packaging is very different so I don't recognize anything. So for the most part they have the things I need but they are just harder to find making grocery shopping a bit more challenging. Also very little variety as far as Mexican food ingredients. The store has 2 tortilla options, no chopped green chiles, and we have yet to find a truly spicy salsa. Anyway, the rainbow below gave me a little boost as I made my way up the hill pushing a sleeping Truman. That lasted about one block before I started to hate life and wonder why on earth I ever walk down that darn hill with a baby when I know I am going to have to walk up it pushing a baby.            And that's why I don't exercise.