Out Like a Lamb

Picture from our hike

Oh yes, there is real estate stuff going on but let's take a moment to stop and smell the cactus blooms.

With half of the family working during the week, me working weekends, golf Saturdays, singing/sound engineering Church obligations Sunday and a whole litany of other teenager things in our life, the Sunshine family is hardly ever all in the same place at the same time.

This past week, both Polly and Marty took last Friday and today off so we could be a family. Originally we were going to head up to Flagstaff for the weekend. That turned into a three week discussion which morphed into errand running on Friday and a nearby hike on Saturday. Our hike turned into a photography contest where the winner got to pick the place we would go to get dessert, which nobody ended up eating anyway. Sunday we hung out at home where Polly and I watched a Hallmark Channel predictable movie and then as a family we saw the three-hour Eagles' documentary (on Netflix if one is looking for it. By the way, it was awesome).

I like bridges

There was some baseball watching in there. There were some jigsaw puzzle making. There were video games for those who play such things. There was some drawing and cooking and lots of other playing. I made my homemade fertilizer for the veggie garden. And, I weeded the garden, pruned the tomato, eggplant and pepper plants and then optimistically planted this year's crop of seeds that might turn into something wonderful. Maybe.

All in all, the downtime was nice. It made us all realize we just don't get a lot of it as a family or even individually. My babies are growing up and getting lives. I am not ready to let this time go.

Someone has a warped sense of humor (Marty took the picture. I refused to get too close to it).