"Kids, get in the car, now." I say at 5:00 pm, knowing the daylight is already fading, but afraid if we stay inside one minute longer that my patience will fade faster.
So with just a few moments of dusk left to call ours, we headed to the playground.
They ran.
They climbed.
They were loud and boisterous and expended that pent-up energy.
We all breathed the cool, very cool, air. The new winter hats and gloves keeping them quite warm.
And I realized that just being outside, racing the sun though we were, was the best twenty minutes of my day.
Oh, how I know those days! The little boys are racing around as I type, but it's already dark outside!
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