Just for Fun!

The past couple of weeks I have been a little, let's say, cranky with my kiddos. I've been really busy with this and that and my poor kids are usually the ones who suffer when I'm stressed. I decided we needed a day of fun. On Thursday we did just that....had fun! I surprised D.J. and checked him out of school. He came out of his classroom looking very confused and asked, "Where are we going?" I knelt down and said, "I just thought today would be a great day to go to the Dinosaur Museum." He started jumping up and down and screaming. It was so funny. (try it with your kids sometime, it's totally worth the bad look you get from the secretary when she asks you why you are checking them out and you say "to go have fun!") I loved thinking, you know what, I'm his Mom and I can do whatever I want. Being a grown up has it's perks. :) So after grabbing a couple of friends and some lunch we heading out on our adventure. I decided to let them do whatever they wanted (to a point) and I wouldn't nag them to hurry or anything. We ended up going through the museum backwards because they thought it would be so funny, dug for bones for almost an hour, and went through the 'scary space tunnel' about 6 times. It was awesome! Then we bought the coolest bouncy balls we could find and ended our adventure at Kneaders where they picked out whatever dessert they wanted. I think the kids had fun but I think I am the one that had the best time. I need to take more days to remember why I am here...to be a Mom. I'm going to try and do more things with them just for fun and hopefully when they are grown we will have lots of great memories to make us smile.