A Little Adventure

First of all, who can help me with my header pic?  It is HUGE, I can't figure out how to change the size. 

Last night I had my book club.  We read "Half-Broke Horses" by Jeannette Walls.  It was wonderful, this is also the author who wrote "The Glass Castle".  I liked "The Glass Castle" better, but the other one is def. worth the read.  Anywho.....last night at book club I was telling them a story and I forgot to put it on my blog about Green Bluff.....

After our glorious apple picking and pumpkin looking, Kent and I decided to take a different way home.  It was a beautiful day and we didn't have anything on the agenda (for once).  We took off in the opposite direction of where we had come from.  We ran in to TONS of traffic that was heading to the Harvest House, after 30-40 minutes of waiting in a traffic jam (where we were perfectly content, the kids not so much), we started winding our way around the beautiful hills.  We kept driving and driving and the kids kept asking, "Where are we going?  When are we going to be home?"  I know all of you moms and dads can picture it.

 I kept saying, "We're having fun, we are just going for a drive." 
"Yeah, but WHEN are we going to get there?"

 After about another 45 minutes to an hour we had turned onto a gravel road, which was our only choice at that point, and realized that it indeed was a dead end.  You would think that if there were school bus stop signs it would continue to go through, it was when we saw school bus turnaround that we knew it was probably a done deal.  At this point, as we were turning around, the girls had fallen asleep (YAY)  and Brayden was near tears with panic.  Can you tell we don't do too many spontaneous things around here?  B seriously thought something tragic was happening because we were just driving to nowhere!  I had to keep reassuring him that we were having fun and we were going on an "adventure!"

 Thus, this is how my opening ties into this rambling.  In "The Glass Castle" they are constantly going on adventures, there whole life is one, big, long adventure.  I have decided that my insistence on a scheduled day/life, and constantly having to be on time or early, with everything written on the calendar may need to become a little more lax.  My husband may need to stop making spreadsheets of daily activities.  :)  (gasp now Kent).  I have to say, with three small children it is VERY necessary to be organized and always have a plan of attack, but I am really going to try to take it as it comes, and try to have more ADVENTURES, maybe then my kids won't fall asleep and/or start crying.  :)

P.S.  We ended up going home the same way we got there.  There is no through road that goes East from Green Bluff.  None that we could find anyway, but I am still counting it as a successful adventure.