Enough

Last night was chilly, and the cool air lingered through to this morning.

We spent yesterday in the Adirondacks. We made a 2 hour drive that in the 21 years that I lived in NY, I had never made before. Probably because this cottage escape was enough we didn’t need to go there to find a slice of outdoor life. It was beautiful there yesterday and I enjoyed going and now being able to say I’ve been.

We arrived back at the cottage and within minutes the kids wanted to swim. They love the water, that out the door the lake invites them to play for as long as their little bodies can take. I did my daily lap swim with a 30 pound boy on my back. The first form of exercise I’ve ever discovered that is fun. The rain started to fall, redundantly wetting our heads as our limbs moved. I remembered being a kid and loving when the rain would fall because having the lake to jump into made those raindrops irrelevant.

We went  inside and warmed up in our sweats and fleeces, feeling the chill of the night air settling in.  We spent the last moments of the day playing a board game, then taking our yawning selves to our warm beds. We could have done more, gone more, needed more, but instead we just loved what we had, who we were with and where we were.

Finally, tucked into our beds, the evening routine of saying silly things to each other began. Anything to make them giggle and be a little less nervous of the disappearing light. Falling asleep with a lingering grin on my face, I felt that everything right there and then was enough.