pauses&clicks

My grandchildren arrived late last night and today dawned gray, cold and uninviting, so we spent most of our day inside, keeping the day’s weather at arm’s length and establishing a new temporary routine for this next week.

With two of the three tucked away in bed at 9:30 and needing a thousand more steps to satisfy my minimum daily Fitbit requirement, I felt restless enough to take our black Lab for a quick walk around the neighborhood, having no idea that our gray day had morphed into a foggy, golden yellow December night.

My thousand needed steps turned into four thousand as I walked streets transformed from their normal personas into mysterious landscapes.

I felt like I’d been given an early Christmas gift.

A half mile into my walk I looked down and realized I might need at least one more gift underneath my tree this year….perhaps a pair of new walking shoes….

…or maybe just enough presence of mind to change out of my slippers before I leave the house.