There is nothing better than not having a pressing matter and being able to take our time. We decided to go to the city today by train, and the walk to the station took us a very, very long time. The kids were sidetracked by the normal things…walking on the stones along the front of a certain house, collecting big gum nuts from the gum trees alone the way, looking through the paper tube of letterboxes, etc.. In addition, though, today it was nice to sit in the sun and pick the flowers growing in unkempt nature strips. By the end of the walk Nathan had his hands full with a bunch of yellow flowers in one hand, and a stick in his other. Toby had to inspect every flower we went past. It was a nice walk to the train…well, with a short sprint at the end to catch one.
It was also a nice way to calm down after getting angry with Nathan for giving Toby another hair cut.
