A Weekend with Meega at Callaway Gardens

This year, La Leche League of Georgia held their annual breastfeeding and parenting conference at the beautiful Callaway Gardens Resort in Pine Mountain, GA. I asked Allen's mom (known to the grandkids as Meega) if she would like to join me and Natalie for the weekend. I figured she would enjoy spending some one-on-one time with Natalie as well as the familiar setting of a LLL conference. She attended plenty when she was a LLL leader for many years. And then of course it was nice for me to be able to enjoy the conference sessions without having to chase a busy toddler around! This year's keynote speaker was Sharifa Oppenheimer, an author and Waldorf educator. It was fascinating listening to her speak about child brain development and what we as parents can do to create home environments that promote the fullest whole-brain development.

Before the conference started on Friday, we had a few hours to explore some of Callaway's attractions. We took a stroll through the Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center and then through Mr. Cason's Vegetable Garden. It was a wonderful weekend and, Meega, I appreciate your company and help!!

Meega and Natalie at the entrance to the vegetable garden.

Checking out all the interesting veggies.

Why can't my yard look like this?

Or this?

Feeding the koi in the butterfly center.

Butterflies everywhere!

Hungry little buggers. You can see them drinking the juice from the orange slices with their proboscis. (Yes, I had to look that up. I was going to call it the feeding tube thingy.)

This butterfly landed on my shoulder.

Cocoons and newly hatched butterflies on display.