The Two Big Bears
We went to the mountains over the weekend… I could not help but think of Thoreau and his sentence “I went to the woods to live deliberately…” This weekend, I went to the mountains to a cabin wiht a hot tub, pool table, and balcony to live deliberately.
With 6 adults and 3 babies, the opportunity for chaos and the opportunity for finding peace and creativity admist the chaos was going to be a challenge. Life with children can be hectic. You wake up (when the child wakes, of course) and feed them, and then there’s nap 1, and then playing, and more feeding, and more playing, and then another nap sometimes and then dinner and then more playing. You are fortunate if you can find time to eat!
While my husband was playing with the baby, I went upstairs to our room and enjoyed a quiet moment or two all to myself. We had a balcony that looked over the river, a valley and the Shenandoah mountains. I felt fortunate to be on a trip with these wonderful people I’d met within the past year and to have found a cabin just 2 weeks before we planned to go on this trip. Everything was perfect. The cabin was enormous with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, a pool table, a piano, and a hot tub. I walked out onto the balcony and saw a slippery black thing in the pond out front. Was it a dog? Big foot?
It was a bear! I’d been wanting to see a bear and had even done a “bear dance” with the baby that very morning. I ran down the stairs and found my husband and told him to go outside FAST. He was able to see one of them as it disappeared into the woods. In that quiet moment, I took the time to look somewhere I would not normally look and found a great gift: a bear. Two bears actually.
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