here’s one for the record!!

I was spontaneous today! Yaeh for me!

Eveybody who knows me well knows how trying to do anything a little out of the ordinary with me is such a pain in the b… cause I just can’t handle it. I’m absolutely not spontaneous. Actually this statement isn’t quite true, I did manage to be spontanous at times before the kids were born but now with two very little people in the house (E’s only 6 months old and her big sister only 26 months) I’ve lost anything even remotely resembling spontaneity.

It was a very hot day today, by Mountain standards: tropical. It was 28C. Our neighbour had been across earlier and suggested I take the kids to the pool. But no that’s not possible: “I haven’t planned for that!”, “I’m not prepared.” I just put it in the too-hard basket.

I stopped thinking about it but when both kids got up from their nap I was feeling incredibly hot and they too looked like they could really do with a trip to the pool. So in a matter of 5mins I got changed, packed swimmers, aqua nappies, floaties, a book (you see, I was feeling very good and relaxed about this adventure and I had high hopes), afternoon tea for the two, hats and suncreen and we were off.

Everything worked out so beautifully. We had dinner a little later as I had to whip that up once we came back from the pool, but I reallly didn’t worry.

The effort paid off. I think we had a fantastic day!!