More than french fries!

I don't know if you're like me, but before I start something I think about it for a long time.  I don't just think about the task at hand I think about things like what could possibly go wrong, what would be the way to avoid things going wrong, and if a problem is completely unavoidable what are my possible solutions.  Stressful? Abosolutely.  I wish that I knew how to life differently, but I'm afraid for right now...it is what it is.  Well, starting a blog was no exceptions.  I spent days...ok weeks thinking about what I would name the blog, what would I write about, and what I would do when I became a famous blogger and people want to make a movie about me.  Ok, I know, its far fetched, but I'm just being honest here.  So anyways, in all of my thinking, I never thought that writing a  blog would bring a sense of calm, respite, to my life.  Now, I have journaled many events in my life but somehow, this blog is different.  I find myself taking time to notice things that happen throughout the day in a way that I never did before.  Probably because I want to make sure that I have something worthy of the big screen to write about :) but it really has made a difference in my day...

Speaking of today...

My baby's first art!!

Happy Father's Day to my awesome husband!  He is a wonderful daddy!  Today, after church we did things that made him happy (because I'm an awesome wife HA!)...while I thought that I had everything all planned out to be a perfect day the weather apparently didn't get the memo.  

bummer.

But you know...it was still SUCH a great day!  After church we (the hub, the bub, and myself) drove up to the Indiana Transportation Museum in Noblesville, IN.  To our disappointment they weren't having train rides today because the locomotive was broken SERIOUSLY??? and just to add to the disappointment it was RAINING.  Well, for the sake of the hub and his first F.D. I decided to just make the most of it....it was, after all, FREE!  So we toured the trains...it was fun!  The baby was crying and my husband was like a kid in a candy store!  

Next on the agenda was a Father's Day Car Show.  Now, please remember that by this point I am sick of my kid crying and we have been walking in the rain...did that cause the hub to think, egh, let's just go home???  NOPE not at all...and yes, we walked around the car show, you guessed it, in the RAIN.  I'm not going to lie, by now, to my surprise, I was actually having fun.  I mean,  I had no idea what I was looking at but seeing my husband so happy pushing that stroller around and showing our son all his favorite cars was worth it!

On to lunch...Red Robbin (yum!).  Let me just say that our "out to eat days" are coming to an end.  I decided that today at lunch.  But before we left I managed to catch a glimpse of a poster that really changed my perspective on a lot of things.  I don't remember the exact quote, but it said something to the effect of, "spend your life gathering as many happy moments as possible, it will make you a much happier old person."  Powerful huh?  In that moment Red Robin became a great place for a reason other than unlimited french fries (which happen to be a favorite guilty pleasure).  I had to stop and think, "you know, I'm glad things happened the way they did today" and "I really want to be a happy old person".  

The rest of the day was fantastic.  It finally stopped raining and we didn't have any reason to be outside LOL.  We spent the evening with grandparents who, against my better judgement fed my son way too much ice-cream.  But I thought, "egh, who cares.  Everyone needs a little ice-cream on a Sunday, even Ezra"!

Once again I was challenged to remember that it's only the simple things in life that really matter.  Embrace them...even if it's in the rain :)

Blessings.