I sent an email to some friends and had to post part of it here….

Yesterday Quinn woke up way early from her nap and part of me wanted to just go get ice cream with the kids.  Then I had this internal discussion saying to myself, “no, don’t give up - you can totally stay here and have a great time.”  And we did.  The highlight was getting buckets of water and soap and having a car wash where the kids washed their bike, fire truck and whatnot.  I helped for like 10 minutes….and then for another 10 minutes they remained completely engrossed in their task.  After that we played with the water hoses…then we came inside for a while and I made them a rabbit hole out of couch cushions.

The “old me” would have bolted from the house trying to kill as much time as possible.  It was a really cool day and I was glad I stuck in out and had faith in my creativity and ability to guide us through the rest of our day.