One of the things I have been consciously working towards this summer, is to take full advantage of each day.  It sounds simple, but it sometimes really does take a conscious effort to do so.  I’ve traveled, spent time with old friends and new, worked on my house, gone swimming, taken pictures, read books, gone to the library, etc etc.  Today was a good example of that. 

Since the last two weekends were spent working on our room, today was spent taking it very, very easy.  I took my photos down to the contest and filled out the paperwork, and we showered and did some cleaning, and then ahd lunch at Chili’s.  We left there and impulsively decided to go to City Forest, which we hadn’t been to in an embarrassingly long time.  We’d never walked the bog, so we did that, and had a really, really great conversation about parenting and tv and kids needing to be outdoors, and how Dave had read that bike riding for kids was down like, 60 percent in the last ten years, and how wrong that was.  It was a PERFECT day to be out there, warm, sunny, low humidity and a good breeze to keep the bugs off. Just a really, really great day.

Of course, City Forest and the bogwalk now have me convinced that I need a Really Fucking Fabulous All-Terrain Stroller, and I’ve moved on to the Zooper Boogie. In red, of course.  I’ve also decided that what someone needs to invent is a snap-n-go like travel system, only where the base stroller is a super light umbrella stroller.  Wouldn’t that be fab?  I could have a super serious Zooper for the neighborhood and off-roading, and then a snap-n-go/infant carrier/umbrella stroller for the mall and traveling.  The snap-n-go travel system that lives in my head would be fucking PERFECT, no?  Instead, they make the travel systems with these ginormous low-to-mid-range quality strollers. (From what I’ve heard, anyway, maybe you love your system? I think CTG does.)  I’m thinking like a Volo with a removable car seat frame. And sell it all together, too.  I’m also way too excited that there’s a Zooper dealership in Portland, because that means I could test drive it.  You know, uh, because I have a pregnant friend and I’m, um, looking for a gift. Yeah.