Yesterday after church, our family drove up to Estes Park to spend the afternoon. We ate ice cream, browsed through a few interesting shops, and played on the playground. I bought a banded onyx bowl that I’ve admired for years. My daughter missed her nap, but she was still cheerful and pleasant. We had a very nice day.
That is why nothing is coming out right today. The kids were up before 6 a.m. By 7:00, when I returned from my morning walk, they had completely disordered the piles of clothes (hand-me-downed to us by a friend) that I’d stayed up late sorting. It was 8:00—I’d been up for two hours—before I finally had my breakfast.
We had plans to go shopping this morning and eat lunch at McDonald’s. Inevitably we were done with our errands well before lunchtime. I couldn’t go back on my promise to take them to lunch, though, and I thought of taking them to the park to fill the time. Naturally I hadn’t brought any sunscreen or sunhats or bottles of water with us, so we dashed home. I hate zigzagging across town, burning gas and spewing pollutants.
Anyway, they had fun at the park, and we went to McDonald’s for lunch as promised. The toys were a disappointment—actions figures from the movie Kung Fu Panda 2, which my kids will never see. When we got home, I smashed my daughter’s fingers in the car door.
This afternoon the kids ran through the sprinkler, fulfilling the other promise I made to them today, although of course it was not hot and sunny like it was this morning but was instead overcast and humid and not really good weather for playing in the water.
Hera is demanding her due.
But somehow you were still able to make a delicious dinner!
ReplyDelete"Mama told me there'd be days like this, there'd be days like this, my mama said, mama said, mama said."
ReplyDeleteI re-read this today, after some stressful situation with my daughter this morning. It is good to read some hope, that sometimes there are bad day but there are few of those if compared with the good ones.
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