Sometimes I forget that life can be simple.
I spent most of the weekend trying to get our family out on bikes together. On Saturday we loaded up, but we forgot to pump up my tires, so I ran home to get the pump, and by the time I got back to the park, Tom discovered he had packed the wrong tires for the trailer.
Today we tried it again, and although we had all the right stuff, by the time we got unpacked we discovered that Ellery still doesn’t sit well in the trailer without performing some extreme yoga move and then it promptly began to rain.
I still vow to get us all out biking together, because it is super-fun and good exercise and a great example for the kids, but I probably should sit back every now and then a let a more simple day happen. By afternoon, I got the message.
Tom took Shep to the hardware store and Neko, Ellery and I stayed home and played with Playmobil. And while Tom finished up dinner, I shuffled Neko and Shep outside to help me gather leaves for the composter. We all wore our big boots in the scorching heat and ran around the yard and picked up leaves and laughed and giggled and that was my favorite moment of the day.