Vacuosity

Winter wonderland

Today, I tasted childhood again. I had nothing urgent to take care of, Jaime was sleeping, and Jordan was home from school, so he and I went out to play in the snow. It wasn't even cold. There was no time and no responsibilities. Neither of us had any clue how long we'd been out there and neither did we care. We stayed out until we got called in almost two and a half hours later, not doing anything in particular, just playing.

I was thinking about how great that was, just playing and being absolutely carefree, when I said to Jordan, "That was a lot of fun, wasn't it?"

"Yeah," he said "especially here in Winnipeg with so much snow." There is really not much snow at all, but to a 6 year-old last winter was a lifetime ago and any snow is "so much".

"That's why we came here, you know," I said.

"For the snow?"

"Well, I meant more to be able to spend time together."

"Oh."

"So let's make sure we do, okay? We've got make sure we get outside and play alot."

"Yeah, we can build giant snow castles and have snow battles!"

Looking forward to a winter of ice skating, fort building and snowball fights with Jordan, his new friends, Jaimeson soon, and maybe even the girls once in a while, makes me happier than I've been in a long, long time.

posted by David @ 12:28 a.m.