One of my kids asked me this morning 'Mum, have you ever been on an adventure?'  I had to think about it for a long moment before answering.  The things that came immediately to mind were the 'mischeivous' adventures I went on as a teenager or the overseas trips I took with Grandparents etc.  Once they came to mind though, I thought about them a bit more carefully and realised that although I had fun, they could not really be considered an adventure!

So I answered 'no' initially.  Gage's face showed scepticism and then disappointment.  'Really?, that's a shame' he said.  I laughed but was a little embarassed that my son thought I had not done anything exciting.

I actually began thinking very hard about my last 32 years.  HAD I ever had an adventure?  I am SURE that I had plenty of them as a child but........when did I stop thinking of all of those things I used to do as an adventure?  When did I start taking everything I did for granted.  The picnics I take my kids on occassionally, why are they no longer 'adventurous'?  The three 3000 plus km trips we have taken from one end of the country to another, were not adventures?

And how about having four children......since when has my everyday life with four children not been an adventure?

So I called Gage back and told him that I had indeed been on many adventures.  That scepticism painted his face again briefly.  'Are you sure?  Like what?'  I though that ecplaining to him that every day with the kids was an adventure might have been a bit trite to a 5 year old so I explained that we have adventrues almost every day.  Like when we went dragon hunting through the markin fortress (picnicing at the playground where there is a large wooden fort), or racing kangaroos through Alice Springs (on our drive from Melbourne to Darwin (3600km)) or cattle droving in a four wheel drive (unexpectedly on our trip from Darwin to Cowley Beach (3200km)).  His eyes actually lit up.  'Oh yeah!  I remember.'

He looked so impressed.  He then asked when our next adventrue would be.  Hmmmm...........let me think about that.   'How about saving the garden from an invasion of alien life forms?'

Well......since when has weeding the garden been SUCH a wonderful adventure?