Busy Breeze Didn't Miss a Tree Today

Every morning, I wake the kids up by singing *obnoxiously* some song. It varies. Some mornings it's "Wakey, wakey, wakey eggs and bakey..." to the tune of "Alueta Jante Alueta" or "Good morning to you, good morning to you, good morning Ben and Shelby, good morning to you!". You know...just irritating enough to wake them up out of a deep sleep. I know...you wish I were your alarm clock. NOT.

This morning I woke up and I just knew it was going to be a great day. I felt it.

It was gorgeous outside. A steady breeze was blowing. Not to hot. Not to cool. "No temperature" I believe is the term.

So this morning's tune was, "Oh what I beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day. I've got a beautiful feelin', everything's goin my way!".

And everything did. I made sure of it.

We had fun just hanging out around the house. Doing regular stuff, but doing it together and laughing. Folding clothes. Sorting through things to donate. Things that don't fit anymore. Getting ready for our big move.

Then we decided to go for a walk. Or a scooter/bike ride as it ended up being. We wanted to time how far it would be from our new home to school. We were all pleasantly surprised and the inevitable question arose of "Can we walk by ourselves?" I didn't have to answer because...

Once we got to the school, we saw this...

When did the school do this? How cool! There's always been somewhat of a path down to the creek, but now the Environmental Club at the kids school has cleared it out some, put a little mulch down and it's so much easier to get to the creek and explore. Which, of course, we quickly decided we HAD to do. Duh!

They even made a chair out of one of the old tree stumps:

My handsome lil man.

And his beautiful lil sis.

 These two are definitely not shy about getting dirty and really getting into it. Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting we were going to do this and it was getting cool outside. So of course the bugs were coming out and we were all wishing we had bug spray!

But we did get to go down to the creek and agreed we will do more exploring down there tomorrow.

Careful on the mossy rocks!

Let's go find the waterfall!

On the way back home, both kids riding their scooters in front of me on my bike, Ben yells out, "This is the best Sunday ever!". A cool breeze was blowing on us. Pinion wood was in the air. The sun was setting and I found myself breathing deeper than I have in a long time. A very long time.

Now, granted Ben is likely to call virtually any day in which he's doing something fun "the best day ever", but I had to agree with him on this one. So did Belle.

With excited voices and agreement between them I wish happened more often than it does at this age, they talked about how we will be even closer to the creek now and how many new adventures we are sure to have in our new home...the entire way home.

I smiled the entire way home...