Another day in paradise

Anyone remember this song from Phil Vassar?  It came on the radio as I was driving home tonight, and I smiled as I remembered loving this song when it originally came out, in 2000, when I was in high school.  Somehow even then I knew that what the song described, this crazy life of loving a spouse and raising kids and trying to make it all work, was the life that I wanted.  And today felt like one of those days.

For those who live in our area, Wintherthur will have "Terrific Tuesday" programs running through the end of this month and it is a great activity!  It's a great price to get your family in and the programming they had, centered around the Sundial Garden today, was great.  The boys made sundials to take home, designed their own sundial gardens based on Mr. duPont's original instructions, made a bath fizzy concoction (not sure what that had to do with sundials), made photographs using UV rays, played a pollinator game, and talked to a climatologist.  And that was all before we even got to the main grounds!

Watching the sun do its photography thing

We brought Little B here years ago before there even was a Little P.  Remember this?

Such a little Little B!!

Well, we do because this picture is in our family scrapbook.  So when I found out we could get in on the discounted price today, I was able to give the boys a visual reminder of where we were going, and despite the fun programs in the educational center, they couldn't wait to get to the Enchanted Woods, a fairy-tale garden with a make-believe description of each play spot...

Disappearing through the mist to fairy land

"Mom, I climb on the stones, ok?"  "No, not ok!"

Can't you just hear him grunting as he pumped?

Checking for trolls under the troll bridge.  He wasn't home.

And then, as if I hadn't exhausted us all enough by walking around for three hours straight this morning, I met Hubby T after he got off work, handed off the kids, and went into my work for two and a half hours.  And yet as I walked out, dead on my feet and starving for dinner I thought, "I love this work that I'm doing!"

Everybody's paradise looks different.  Everybody's paradise doesn't always feel like paradise.  But today, I'm grateful for mine!

And because I just can't resist, here's the blooper picture:)