The best laid plans of mice and men…frequently fall by the wayside when you are two Daft gals on a mission.
Only sort of in our case today though.
Daddy Daftie is away this week for work so it’s just the girls, left to our own devices. I have always been a huge advocate for routine being a great resource, a grand comfort, when raising a Wee Daftie. And I still do.
Except on holidays.
Holidays mean anything can happen. We still need to brush our teeth. And eat some decent fuel in amongst the treats. Bed has to happen at a reasonable time so we can enjoy the tomorrow’s adventure as much as today’s. But we can also disregard time and just go with flow.
The plan for today was to walk to the Botanic Gardens and wander about them a bit and be home in time for lunch. So we left our house, equipped with explorers’ gear (binoculars) and artists’ bits and pieces (notebooks and pens)
We walked a more direct route this morning and told stories as we walked in the midmorning sun.
We had a good explore around before picking a lovely bench in the sunshine to create at. Wee Daftie, armed with her binoculars, pens, pencils and paper sketched the trees, herself and the flowers. I sat on the bench, wrote some and watched my girl just enjoy her surroundings.
She twirled, she danced, she giggled, and she tried to catch falling petals in her hat. She named all the ducks we saw.
We were thinking about heading home when we saw a school friend of hers out with her mum, whom I also know slightly.
This is where I am grateful for the flexibility of holiday time. It is really freeing to just say “Yes. We can stay longer.” So we did. Wee Daftie and her friend got to have some time together. I got to get to know another mum better than I knew her yesterday. We discovered we live incredibly close to each other, so we walked home together when it was time to leave.
The whole “getting home in time for lunch” thing didn’t happen as we returned to our front door at 4pm but it was a really super day. We walked with friends for Simba today and we even remembered to put suncream on our faces this morning!
Tomorrow Wee Daftie has a friend coming to play in the morning so I’m not quite sure, yet, when we will get our stroll on. But I know that we will. We’re on a roll now and there is no stopping us!
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