Before kids, I remember our weekends being very leisurely and calm... sleeping in, eating a leisurely breakfast (with no one going into time-out), maybe working on some random home improvement project, meeting some friends for dinner, going to the movies or a party, reading the Sunday paper from cover to cover, browsing through some junk stores or a flea market... We were always up for some adventure, often hopping in the car to check out some random store and winding up two hours away stumbling upon some festival of some sort.
How things have changed with kids. Logan is still at a very challenging age. He naps, and our schedule is kind of dictated by that. He doesn't use words functionally much yet. So much of our time and energy is spent trying to figure out what he wants or why he is crying. Dylan is much easier and loves to go anywhere and everywhere. Logan has a ton of fun once we get where we are going, but getting him out of the house and to our destination is less than fun, usually.
So for now, our adventures have to be pretty local and easy. Logan needs his naps, and we need him to take his naps. Fortunately, this time of the year lends itself to some awesome little fall outings. On Saturday, we went to a farm down the road that has a cute little fall festival, with hayrides, giant slides, hay bales to climb on and a million other ways for kids to get filthy dirty.
We took in two rounds on the hayride and enjoyed the gorgeous weather. We fed the goldfish some popcorn, and looked at all the gorgeous bright mums that looked like cakes (according to Dylan). We watched Dylan leap from haybale to haybale, while Logan dug in the dirt. In all the adventures we had together before having kids, I don't think we ever took in a hayride or flew down a giant slide.
Our weekends may not be as spontaneous as they used to be. But going anywhere with the boys is always an adventure and I'd never trade that for anything.
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