Day 5: Tell yourself "he's only ___ years old. He's still a child." Then treat him that way.
Yesterday, we had a fabulous day. The weather was gorgeous: mid 80's, sunny and not a cloud in the sky. The Mister had found a beach park about an hour away and wanted to take a family trip there for months, and Labor Day seemed just the day to do it. We packed everyone up, got a picnic lunch together and hit the road. Once we got there, the kids were ecstatic. They couldn't wait to dig in the sand, go swim in the lake and search for treasures. After a quick lunch, the kids got to playing and had a blast. They got messy and didn't want to stick to the timetable the Mister and I had in mind. Remembering the challenge for the day, we started talking about how much fun and how different the beach is from our usual outings, and we relaxed, got back in the water with them and forgot about where we wanted to go next and how much sand we were going to have to clean out of the truck. The Mister and IJ played baseball on the beach, and the girls and I played in the water until we got so tired we could hardly race back up to the blanket. We wrote our names in the sand and took pictures (that's #89 on my 101 list!) and just had a great day as a family. I'm glad that we let them "just be kids" and enjoy the day. Doing so helped me remember that yes, schedules are good, but so is throwing the schedule out the window sometimes!
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