a day for adventure

what drives me crazy about winter is how home-bound i get.

i don't parent inside all that well.

i am more distracted - email, phone, blogging.

outdoors - i feel like i am more on my game.

the park, the farmer's market, the playground.

but we don't live walking distance from the park anymore.

a day at the playground doesn't work.....

naps for sweet pea, school for peanut, pick-up, lunch.....

well... this saturday, we had a family day.

i did my run early without my training group.

got home, showered, jumped in the car.

i realize that we drove over two hours to just have lunch.

but we were not at home.

we were not bugging each other (that much).

we stepped out of the doors.

and we found a candy shop with a big gum ball machine.

and a "haunted" indian smoke shop.

(side note: those headphones are not plugged into anything. he wore them the whole ride home)

it was mostly worth it......

minus the stress of trying to park our car when getting home when our entire street has iced over since it is too narrow to plow and our neighbor had gotten their car stuck in front of our driveway and we had to park around the corner and walk over snow piles with crying sweet pea who was hungry and ready for bed....

but it was a fun, family day.

and we explored more of the northeast.

rhinebeck, ny.