Moments D724: Childhood Pet Memories

Today on my drive into work I saw a man stopped with his dog on the side of the road. That's a pretty typical scenario, and I thought nothing of it, until I slowly rolled closer to the scene.

As I slowly crept in traffic, I had a chance to watch this beautiful golden retriever play with very large tree branch. The tree branch looked like a small tree in and of itself and this dog was whipping its head back and forth with this "tree" hanging from its mouth.

That made me smile and think back to my childhood and the dogs we had when I was growing up. I remember them both doing similar things and always enjoying their pleasure with shaking branches bigger than themselves. I swear, if the dogs could smile, they would have been!

A silly moment, but one that not only made me smile, but it had me remember days when I was a young lass.

Those were good, simple days.

Moments smiling at silliness.

Moments enjoying memories from your childhood.

Moments D497: Lemonade anyone?

As we were driving to the Milwaukee Skydive Centre this morning we happened across a cute lemonade stand at the end of a driveway.   We blew right past it, after all it we were on a country highway.   And then, in a blink of an eye, EQ hit the breaks and threw the car into reverse.  I was a whole lot surprised at the action and very, VERY happy that he did so.  And yes, fortunately there weren't any other cars on the road this time of the day!

And so, we met Andy and his lemonade stand:

As we parked, I put the window down and asked him if he would deliver.  Poor Andy looked a bit perplexed and said no!  When I explained that I was only looking for him to make his way from his table to the car he brightened and said, with an enthusiastic nod, "...yes, yes.  Just one?"    When I asked for two he brightened a little more.

He walked over his two lemonades and proudly handed them over to me.  We gave him a $5 bill and told him to keep the change for the delivery.  With a wink, we sped off again.

It was just one of those fun, silly feel good moments to bring a smile to a entrepreneurial boy.  It was a lovely reminder of my childhood when my brother and I would do silly things together.  I remember our Kool-Aid stands!  What fun we had!  Sharing a smile and walking down memory lane was a great way to start our day.  

Moments stopping to appreciate the little things.

Moments bringing a smile to a child.

Moments D81: Burnt Feet

First, I’m sure you are wondering how burnt feet could possibly be today’s moment. And secondly, you are likely wondering how I managed to burn my feet!

First things first: Try playing beach volleyball at high noon on a hot hot day. The sand gets hot. Typically I have insensitive feet. Today the sand was unbearably hot. And yet, I continued to play beach volleyball…to a point where burying my feet into the sand didn’t help. (In fact, it made it worse as the hot sand on top of my feet managed to burn the top of my feet too. So now, as I sit and write this out, both the bottoms of my feet and the tops are burnt and tender! HA.

Secondly - this becomes today’s moment for two reasons. First it reminds me of my childhood when I would play basketball in the driveway barefoot. I can’t even tell you the number of times I burnt the bottoms of my feet. It’s not for realizing they were burning, but being stubborn that I didn’t want to stop playing and put on shoes. Yes…some things never change.

The second reason is because for the last two hours at the beach I just sat back and watched the others. I enjoyed sitting under the umbrella, eating and drinking while watching the others play in their sand socks. (Mental note to self, pick up sand socks next week!) What a treat it was.

Moments of memories.

Moments of relaxation.