I decided last night that I need to get back to walking on Saturdays and Sundays. I used to do it every weekend at our old house. Samson and I would rise and shine around 7 a.m. and hit the pavement. We got out of the habit when we moved though.
Well, no time like the present to start again!
Only, Samson can’t go with me for a while since he’s still recovering. Guess I’ll just have to go it alone!
Or at least, that was the plan.
I set my alarm for 6:30, in order to get up and going before Isabella. She usually rises around 7. I got up, dressed and was heading toward the stairs when I heard her talking. I now had 3 choices: 1) sneak away and let her wake up CJ, 2) get her up and skip my walk, or 3) take her with me.
I was tempted to do #1. It would be the easiest. But Ceige is recovering from some bug and he needed the extra sleep. Skipping the walk wasn’t an option as I need to increase my exercise. So, that left #3.
It turned out to be a great opportunity for some lovely mother/daughter time (and is another notch in my belt for wife of the year!).
I got the little one up, changed her diaper and tucked her in the stroller, along with some juice and a Scooby Doo Coloring Book (she’s really in to Scooby right now).
Instead of walking around our neighborhood, we wandered to the one behind us. I had never really explored that one before.
Look what we found around one bend.
A lake so quiet and smooth that it looked like a mirror.
Isabella took a break from reading Scooby to give me a big smile!
There was a walking trail around the lake so we hopped on it. The weather was perfect – warm (but not hot), no wind and very quiet.
Ah.
We walked down to the end and then came back down the other side.
This is the tree that you can see in the background of the first 2 pics.
Then we came upon a big grouping of bird feeders.
I don’t know if these are owned by the people in that house or if they’re part of the neighborhood. It’s a cool idea, though I wouldn’t want to live near them. Could get loud and messy as every one of them had a bird in it.
We also discovered this on our way out of the neighborhood.
Some sort of bridge. Not sure if it serves any purpose. You can’t walk across it. Kinda cool looking though.
There were lots of cool houses too, but I didn’t take pictures of those, you know, for the privacy of the owners.
We came home to some beautiful flowers outside our own house!
I just love this time of year!
We went inside and I made Isabella the cinnamon biscuits that I promised her last night. I made some caramel ones too.
They turned out yumm-o!
I’m so happy that I embraced the opportunity to share some special time with my sweet girl this morning. It’s those moments that are the ones we’ll remember forever.
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