spontaneous.

well i have tried to craft my attitude towards this summer to be flexible and fairly spontaneous - open to fun times or a slower pace or whatever might come to our days & weeks. i realize we don't have too many seasons of non-scheduled life, and i treasure these days we are able to be free from such time pressures. it has been good practice for me.

case in point: today, the typically-not-spontaneous mommy had just a small (spontaneous) hankering for some ice cream and for a chance to celebrate the last days of summer together as a family... the result - a trip to the portland malt shoppe! complete with a long wait in line, several well-worth-it cones, and a dry-clothes-defying trip to throw rocks in the lake (you can't be that close to the lake & not throw a few rocks in!!). it was a lovely, spontaneous afternoon (cue the eye-roll from nj :)), a sweet way to end the summer.