"Where are we going, Mama?"
"I'm not sure. Just out, I guess."
Orr happy, cozy little life is a wee bit on the sheltered side. We eat at home, we learn at home, we enjoy time with each other at home. Need to find us? We're probably at home.
Sometimes I just need to get out to remember there is a whole wide world out there. People going to work, people running errands, people walking their dogs, people getting gas. People in general, just existing.
This morning we drove around for 45 minutes trying to find a specific park someone had told us about last fall. I didn't know exactly where it was, but I remembered the general area and so we drove. And drove. And never found the park.
But I saw people cutting the grass, people going for a run, people in a drivethrough line, and people playing in their yards with their little babies.
Eventually we came home and I looked the park up online. I wasn't even close. But I felt refreshed. And that's what I was looking for, anyway.
Do you ever just drive?
3 comments:
Oh yes - especially when it calms the little ones down. They're in their car seats...with their sippies watching everything go by and I'm singing along with the radio. Somedays it's better than therapy :) lol
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YES. I did this all the time after my fourth. It was me and Coldplay and a tall drip while 4 kids did NOT nurse, cling or pull on me. Bliss!
I drive around with no real destination in mind all the time. But I don't have kids. I just do it to listen to music and feel the wind and bump my bass... Not really that last one, though... Sarah McLachlan is lacking "boom", I fear.
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