Since we've moved here, I've loved it. But since we lost our baby boy, I've grown even fonder of our location. I have all of this space to explore and now that I have time off of work, I've been doing just that. It's true that I've run through our wooded area many times before, just for exercise, but I've hardly ever slowed down and just enjoyed it. Right now, since bug season hasn't fully hit, I can still climb onto the fallen tree and hang my feet over the creek. I feel like I'm eight years old again. Nature may just be one of the biggest healing forces, did you know?
My other most powerful healing force: my children and my husband. They can still bring me to tears caused by laughter about eighty times each day. Kenny fell off of the bed yesterday morning while trying to hit the snooze button and I didn't laugh right away, just in case he was hurt, but when his head popped back up over the bed and he had a big old goofy smile on his face, I knew I was allowed as much laughter as I wanted.
Two nights ago, we decided to meet Kenny in Lincoln to eat out when he got off of work. After eating, Mae opted to ride home with Kenny while Kyler hopped into the passenger side of the Jeep. There was a lady at the restaurant handing out balloon animals and Kyler had asked for a dinosaur, so of course, that's all he wanted to talk about the whole way home: dinosaurs. He was giving me all sorts of facts that I will never remember and going on and on...and he mentioned something about how big a certain baby dinosaur was...and then I said one of the dumbest things ever. I do this a lot. A thought popped into my head that instantly made me laugh and before researching it in my brain, I said out loud, "I bet dinosaurs looked hilarious when they were pregnant!" Kyler stared at me for a very long time with a look of disappointment on his face. Of course, I kept going on about how these dinosaurs must have walked around with their bellies dragging on the ground and I wondered if they had heartburn or horrible gas and ..."Why are you looking at me like that?" Kyler drew in a deep breath, let it out and said, "Mom, dinosaurs laid EGGS." I shut up then and we drove in silence for about two miles before I opened my mouth again to say, "I knew that dinosaurs laid eggs, I just..." and Kyler interrupted me to say, "I KNOW, you just didn't think before you spoke." Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
The wrestling season is officially over and I am so ready for baseball/softball season to begin. I know this sport well enough that I can practice with the kids without getting brutally injured. And I can usually answer any questions they have about the game. And it makes me feel important when the kids tell me how impressed they are that I can catch a ball. And throw it. And sometimes, even hit it with a bat. And that's a whole lot of sentences that begin with 'And.' All of my past english teachers are most certainly cringing their eyebrows right now.
This concludes my Thursday post. The sun is up and the weather will be beautiful today, so I'm gonna go cruise around Pinterest and find something to create today. I hope this day finds everybody well.
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