Testing the waters

With Summer has come days of living outside.  Our little inflatable pool has become a fixture to take out, pump up and fill up so the kids can play for a couple hours.  Since we live in a condo, the day also entails: emptying, deflating and putting away the pool each day!  This whole adventure each day is tiring yet fun.

With all this work, I am hoping I can help create childhood memories of fun summers full of adventure.  Even if it is imaginary adventure!  I enjoy sitting by the pool, listening to my children play.  Their imaginations take hold and I enjoy that.  At times they are mermaids swimming through a sea, searching for a treasure.  Other times they are trapped in the middle of the ocean waiting to be saved. 

As I listen to them play, I think of my childhood and the many adventures my imagination took me on.  The joys that come from our imagination!  When you are a child with an imagination, the world is truly yours!  You can become anything, anywhere.  Yesterday my nephew was the super hero and my daughters were the maidens in distress.  I watched as my nephew flexed his muscles and fought off the imaginary bad monster.  At least I know that I am making memories that will last for me!  What a joy.  I need to be better about just sitting, watching and listening my children more often.  There really is joy there!

So today as I drag the pool out once more, fill it up and bask in the sun…maybe (just maybe) I will be a bit more grateful for the opportunity I have to be taken into my childrens’ imaginations.  These precious few moments I get to enjoy these summer days!

Never had a formal blog. Decided it was time to test the waters…and Pals abilities to create the blogoshpere.  So far, so good.

A few moments ago, I walked outside (it is 11:50 pm).  I was walking out to catch my husband before he got out of our parking lot.  He is going to get Guitar Hero Aerosmith.  I had to remind him of some other things that we needed while he was out.  When I got outside, the parking lot was full of police officers and their cars, with the lights blazing.  They had the only entrance/exit area blocked off.  One of our lovely neighbors had attracted their attention apparently.  Gotta love living in the little Ghetto!

In the end, the neighbor was let free, my husband was allowed out of the parking lot and I am now home thinking…although my neighbor is free, it doesn’t mean he is safe!  So now I am waiting, waiting, and waiting for my husband to get home.  I don’t want to go to bed…couldn’t sleep now.  Oh well, would have only gotten in a bit before Guitar Hero Aerosmith would be blaring on the surround sound and I would be up (and probably playing a bit too).  Although I don’t like to admit it often…I am a guitar hero junkie!