WITH the hot sun on my back... i feel alive!

~the last time i felt like that was laying on a towel on the beach some holiday ago.

~and long b4 that as a child i remember sitting in the sun pottering around in the soil for hours.

now in the present day i've had an achey back and body this last week. so bad that it's kept me awake at nite. i was contemplating whether i shd use the $ for osteo /or for a certain outing which ky and a pal hv bn waiting for for a long time....  cos uc nothing has helped for it...until today.  and nature was truly the best medicine!

the kids and i spent e day at e reservoir, along with a bunch of friends. we had a pleasant walk beneath the shaded tree-canopy, e kids did some 'fishing', then they dug about in e clay patch.

after handing out big balls of e squishy stuff, i sat on the grass in the sun, and fashioned a little horse and teddy-bear (kayla's wish), and then smoothed out some clay marbles that ky had made. the kids were busy modeling clay bowls and balls, and just enjoyed their time frolicing in the shallows.  i sat and sat and chatted and chatted. the sun shone warm on my back and it felt sooo goood!

then as e sun set, we washed up and had a picnic on e opposite bank, staying rt up until e dark enveloped us. 

and now, home and settled, the kids are long asleep, and i'm feeling warm and rosey and sublimely relaxed... like one would after a long swim on a hot day. if only i felt this way *every* day...

madly, truly, deeply

sublime.