The kids decided to fundraise for their hoped for wish list trips and we ended up on the front page of the paper! It’s been wonderful to see the response and the kids entirely sold out of truffles they sold for Valentine’s Day (even the ugly ones that didn’t pass quality control.)

We’ve also been contacted by people with great suggestions and tips and offers to help make the wish list come true. (Here is the wish list.) The kids hoped to see NASA someday and we were contacted by someone who works there! We’re waiting for approval and clearance and coordinating and such but this may mean we get to go see the space center soon (before I go back on call for my next little doula baby arrival.)

In the meantime the kids are reading all our books about space and watching videos about planets and it’s been a fantastic unit study.

While there we’ll spend a little bit of time on the coast, hopefully ride a ferry, eat some shrimp, and check out the Children’s Museum of Houston if we have time. Oh, and on our way coming or go we plan to hit a chocolate factory, another item on our wish list. 🙂

This is the kids’ favorite book about space thus far, and it’s great for a wide variety of ages from our 3 year old up through our 12 year old. I really like it – Earth and Space