Star Gazing

It was a slow hard day. Somehow we manage to not make it outside except for drop offs and pick ups. No fun. With two naps to manage, this is becoming more frequent than not. While I had given up on making it out, Rod hadn't. He came home late, at 7pm, but after dinner, we put sweatshirts over our pjs and laced up our sneakers to go for a walk in the dark!

It was so fun to be out past bedtime. The kids thought it was a special treat. Usually we do walks and the kids are on bikes or scooters or blades. Usually we do walks with some destination in mind. Not this time. We simply walked up up up the street behind our house until we could spy the ocean line of lights. Then across the neighborhood with no lights. Luke reached for my hand over and over again, something new to me. I loved it. Rod and I recalled the weekend events and visited like we were on a date. I loved it. As we began to walk down down down the other side of the hill, Bella said she was tired of walking, so we all four layed down on the sidewalk and looked up to the dark night sky for shooting stars. Bella has yet to see her first one! There we were, all on our backs pointing out constellations in the middle of our neighborhood with the occasional car passing by. I emptied my head of the busy day and rested with my family. It was peaceful. It was fulfilling. It was monday night.