Just a Day Ending in "Y"

I think I've finally picked a favorite season -- fake spring. The real thing is great and all, but there's something extra magical about those random winter days that end up being oddly warm. It's just so fantastic to walk around in February without a coat, you know?

Today's fake spring came complete with an on-time escape from work. I've been bad at leaving at a reasonable hour lately, but today I got it right. The sun was even still out when I left! Having the sun still out when you leave work is almost as joyous as the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

So I rushed out of work on time and picked up Miss Mila. She was, as usual, super perky and bouncy and filled with delight because three year olds rule. For real, they do. I knew the second I laid eyes on her that she was in too good of a mood to just go home. So we didn't. Instead, we ran to the playground to more thoroughly enjoy the fake spring day.

Mila climbed the rock walls, jumped off the ledges, spun the wheels, and flew down the slides. It was all perfect and great and MORE FAKE SPRING, PLEASE. Because, man, the kid is in such a good place right now. She's still little but big enough to not be a fulltime job (just 98% of a fulltime job, which is worlds better than she was even six months ago). It is officially fun to take her places and let her do her thing. I still have to worry about her doing a dumb thing, but it's nowhere near as major of a thing as it was months ago. It's almost like she's growing up and maturing.

Maybe someday she can teach me how to do that "mature" thing. Maybe.

In the meantime, I have no point that I'm trying to make. There's no punchline or clever line or anything like that. It was just a really good day with perfect "fake spring" weather and it included Mila excitedly going down the slide and then saying, "That was so fun! I'm going to do it again!"

The little non-events are the best part of this crazy thing called "life."