Thoroughly Inspired

By mom's blog tonite, I feel led to submit one of my own!

Today I spent the afternoon with a sweet family. Stacy (who discipled me in highschool) and her husband Matt have two beautiful chillens. Arden and Elliot. Arden is full of spunk and attitude and excitement and love. And Elliot is a chubby 8 month old with cellulite. Who could resist such a pair?! We wanted to feed the ducks so we found a park with ducks and two large swans (they mate for life, you know) and lots of hungry catfish and a lone moss-covered turtle. As much fun as it is, feeding the wildlife, I'm convinced after seeing the feeding frenzy today that there is no way that these creatures could fend for themselves if the world ran out of bread. As soon as the critters realized what was going on, they flocked to us! We could have easily started a riot. The highlight of the park was watching Arden chase a squirrel around and around a big tree with a crumb of bread in her hand. At one point she stamped her foot and looked up at me with a pouty face and said something like "I just want to feed him!!!" Too cute!

After lunch, Elliot went down for his nap, Stacy went out to run a couple of errands and Arden and I were snuggled on the couch watching the old Peter Pan. Maybe one of the best things she does is when she wants a popsicle for a snack. Then she's a little sticky and slightly fruity smelling the rest of the day. After Peter Pan, we watched the animated Barbie learns to Dance (or something silly like that) and she put on her best dancing dress and we twirled around the living room until she collapsed in a sweet, sticky, sweaty pile and asked for her back to be tickled. And tickle her back I did...until my arm got tired.

I realize that this post is neither witty nor sarcastic, but it is the sweet moments during the day that make Dallas livable for me. Today definitely had it's sweet, strawberry popsicle sticky moments!

ps- Stacy, if you read this, you have inspired me to dust off the bread baker machine...I'll let you know how it turns out!