Sunshine

So if you get home from an early morning yoga class and there is SUNSHINE outside, it's time to get outside---and FAST. This is not the time to think about how little the boys have had for breakfast or how you look sporting the post-yoga glow (read: sweaty clothes and crazy hair). It isn't the time to put up with complaints over turning off the movie or discussions over which shoes to wear. It's time to hustle.

Because if the last few weeks are any example, the moments of sun may be very fleeting indeed. It's time to grab the neglected camera and push those boys out the door for some bike riding. It's time to turn your face skyward and bask in the warmth and light and the sensation of leaves blowing on trees without any rain dripping off of them.

Becase you might--just might--find yourself huddled in the basement hours later during a tornado watch, listening for thunder (or worse) and keeping worried boys occupied. Grabbing only the neccessities--wine and strawberries and sandwiches--you might be sitting down there wondering if the morning sun was just a figment of your imagination.

And then another hour later, when the storms are safely past, you might find yourself sitting at the computer while those same boys are running around outside in the rain, squirting each other with super-soakers. And if you do find yourself sorting through pictures of happy boys biking in the sunshine, you'll be pretty glad you hustled during that little window of beautiful weather.