After a two-week vacation in which I logged 7 ski days (@Wildcat, Black, Burke, Stowe and Magic!) I am ready to spring into some warm weather, and today was the first T-shirt day of the year. The windows are wide open and I hope I don’t have to close them until October (early Spring naïveté). While I worship the winter and its white alpine bounty, I might have a harder time appreciating it without the warmth of summer. Being outside can be beautiful or miserable, depending on surroundings and weather, so anytime the factors align pleasantly, I am sure to enjoy it.
This summer will obviously include some great outdoor time, although we don’t have any exotic foreign trips planned. Scheduling anything outside our vicinity this summer will be a challenge as we are due for the unpredictable adventure of our daughter’s Birth! July 29 is the best guess at a date, but we are dealing with nature here, which is always full of surprises…
Like our global travels of pre-parenting, I am thrilled at the idea of venturing into the unknown for new experiences and daily challenges. While researching these trips is always informative, it rarely provides a sense of what it is actually like to be there and live a day-to-day existence; I have been working with children for 12 years and I still have no concept of what fatherhood is, but I will learn as I go, and learning is always good. I will make mistakes and I will acknowledge them to become a better parent for my child, who deserves the greatest life I am capable of providing for the education and enrichment of my own life that she provides. I can’t wait to meet her…