One of my constant prayers is for the Lord to show me things that I can do with this trio of mine as we are the ones who spend our days together.

Lane, Tate, and Eliza are very content with our school routines and rhythms – but I am always looking for experiences and things that will get us out and about some too.

The libraries in our area had a “passport” promotion this summer.

We all got a passport pamphlet from our local library, which has been renamed by Lane’s nieces and nephews as “Lane’s library.”

SO cute and something I never want to forget!!

The idea was to get as many library locations stamped on your passport as you could, and then your passport would be entered into a drawing at the end of the summer.

The kiddos and I headed out for our first library “cruise” at the end of May!

We went to Holmen first, which is where we used to live when we first moved to Wisconsin, and about 45 minutes away.

Before we went to the library, I had another plan for us – to try out a newer gluten-free bakery that was in that same town.

I was hoping to get the kiddos cinnamon rolls for breakfast, which I had heard from some friends are pretty fantastic!

The bakery did not have any cinnamon rolls that morning.

Let me just say we were not impressed with anything there, and leave it at that!

We did buy some treats anyway, but two of them got thrown away, just to be honest here.

Holmen has a new library that was not there when we lived in that town, and it is just BEAUTIFUL!!

We headed there next and enjoyed browsing and browsing and browsing!

It was the most beautiful day too.

Next we went to the library in Onalaska, kind of making our way back toward home.

The inside of that library has been rearranged since the last time I was there.

It was fun to browse there too!!

Our last stop was in West Salem.

I used to spend a lot of time in this library and building, because our three oldest children were in 4-H and this is where a lot of the activities for that were held!

It was a fun walk down memory lane for me that day!!

West Salem also has a very nice library – and every single person we met that whole day as we went from library to library was VERY friendly, talkative and kind!!

Our next library cruise was at the end of June.

We only planned to visit one library that morning and then a Co-op near it to get some lunch.

We headed to downtown La Crosse to the main library there.

When we lived on the farm, this is one of the libraries we went to most often!

One of the librarians recognized me (but not the children!) and we got to chat which was so sweet.

The Co-op is just a few blocks over from this library, and we headed there next.

The children let their Co-op loving Mama walk every aisle and look around, and then we went and got some lunch for the kiddos.

Lane ate his sandwich as soon as we got into the van, and told me “This is the sandwich of all sandwiches, Mom!!”

Of course it only filled one of his two hollow legs, so he ate again when we got home, ha, ha!

Now I want to do that all again!!!

Especially that trip down memory lane!

I did drive the children by our very first home in Wisconsin while in Holmen – and they had so many questions!

It was very fun to talk about life all those years ago!

I am grateful for any little outing with my trio where we are having experiences and making memories together.

Go visit a new library if you do!!