No Regrets

Universe, I am sorry that I was late for EVERYTHING today. It's just that ... well ... did you spend any time outside? Because I did and IT WAS GLORIOUS.

I started with the late, despite getting up extra early, because this creature couldn't get in the car without stopping to admire the sunrise.

Legitimately, she walked out the door, looked up, and froze in her tracks. She declared the sunrise "Boo-tiful" and watched as the yellow turned to gold and then to orange and then to pink. At one point, she literally gasped with delight because Mother Nature put on a heck of a show. She even demanded that I take pictures of her with the sun. Only when the show was over was she willing to carry on with her day.

Which, well, if there's one thing that's better than stopping to smell the roses, it's stopping to gasp at a sunrise.

And then! And then I had to do the long walk from my car to my office (it's about 1/3 mile from the parking lot to my desk). The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, it was the perfect temperature ... and it seems I walk really slow in those conditions. When it was like -20°, I could do that walk in less than 2 minutes, but somehow it took me something closer to 20 minutes today.

And then I did that walk again at lunch.

And then the girls wanted to play with sidewalk chalk before we ate dinner.

And then Mila wanted to go for a walk in the neighborhood before I took Alexis to dance class.

Basically, I had an entire day of pausing life to enjoy the weather and I regret nothing. So there.