Escape

Reasons I love a road trip:

:: escaping our condo after being cooped up with a sick kiddo for over a week - the walls were quickly closing in on me

:: driving through the mountains during the only three weeks of the year that they are lush and green - for most of the year they are brown and drab, but last week the mountains were simply beautiful

:: being able to just pack up a couple of snacks and hit the road - I love being out of the diaper bag phase!

:: all the "new" toys at Grandma & Grandpa's house, riding a three-wheeler in the back yard and swinging on a hammock watching the clouds

::being away from my compter - no constant refreshing my email to see if there are any updates about our refi or if new jobs have been added to craigslist

:: visiting Granny Karen at her "office" - a nursery overflowing with flowers

:: a constant stream of chatter from the back seat

:: doing something spontaneous - it was seriously fun!

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Sunshine

:: a 75-degree jeans-and-t-shirt day

:: every single window open as far as it will go

:: new lip gloss

:: an empty laundry basket and clean sheets on the bed

:: Janie's scratchy throat that makes her sound like an 80-year-old-smoker-lady

:: a $1 magnifying glass from Target providing hours of entertainment

:: long nature walk, looking at every flower, leaf and rock up close (see above)

:: throwing rocks in the pond

:: forgetting to be prissy and getting dirt under our fingernails and grass stains on our jeans

:: Knuffle Bunny and Amanda Pig

:: wearing flip-flops with cute springy nail polish on my toes

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Making rough places smooth

Here's the verse I'm trying to memorize this month...

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by ways they have not known,

along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;

I will turn darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth.

These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.

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