Look Back With Sadness

Blog­ging early because it is baby-sitting night. We still call it that even thought the boys are no longer babies. Ten years ago Donna gave as a Christ­mas gift to another cou­ple in the Bike Club our ser­vices as babysit­ters for one week­end evening a month for the next year. At that time their one son was 2 years old. This gave them to oppor­tu­nity to go out on a “date,” have din­ner out, see a movie, what­ever. Four years later we got a year off after their sec­ond son was born and he got old enough to leave alone with us. The boys have gone from not want­ing to leave our sides and go to their bed­rooms until their par­ents came home to going imme­di­ately to their rooms to play Nin­tendo. One thing that hasn’t changed it they still don’t want to go to sleep.

In Jan­u­ary when it is 35 and rain­ing I’ll look back with sad­ness of today’s missed oppor­tu­nity. Another per­fectly beau­ti­ful fall day and the Miata trav­eled whop­ping 5 miles today. A morn­ing trip to the gro­cery store and a lunch time trip to retrieve sandwiches…

Started down, still down.
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