Making Memories – One Moment at a Time!

April 8, 2008 tishale

About two weeks ago, the boys and I drove by a small man-made lake in our community.  It is surrounded by a large area of grass, trees and some benches.  The kids said, “Mom, will you take us there?”  Normally, when I’m working and it seems there is never enough time to breathe, I would have replied with, “Maybe” or “Yeah, someday”.  However, I felt so good responding immediately with, “Sure.  We can ride our bikes there today.”  They were amazed I said yes so quickly.  They weren’t used to that.

So we got home and got the tires pumped up on our bikes, and off we went.  Christian just learned to ride without his training wheels, so he was really proud that he road such a long way.  Jayson followed beside him to make sure he didn’t fall (it was so cute).  It was amazing that something so basic - taking only one hour of my afternoon – could make my kids so excited.  When we got there, to my amazement, there were ducks.  They thought we had bread, so they came running/quacking up to us.  I didn’t bring bread because I didn’t know there were ducks in the lake.  It was too cute though because Christian got such a kick out of watching them follow us and all follow each other.

We walked around the water, holding hands, and just enjoyed the beautiful day by the lake.  Jayson tried to climb a tree and Christian, of course, followed suit.  We decided that we would come back another day soon and bring bread with us.  I also pondered something very important…that nothing in life is more gratifying than taking the time to give your kids a memory…now every time we pass the lake, they say, “Can we go there again, mom?”  OF COURSE WE CAN…WE NEED TO TAKE TIME TO “SMELL THE ROSES”!

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