Simple pleasures

What delights a child? Is it a ice cream cone? Is it a walk with the family to the beach? Maybe it is running up and down man, made sand dunes? It could be a race home with daddy
....or maybe it is all of the above. Today we had a family walk down to Sandy Beach. This walk isn't too far from our house, in fact it is about 10 minutes away. The children put on coats and we walked down to see how the "new playground" was coming along. It was AMAZING. There are huge sand dunes piled all along the beach cabins. The dunes are so high they match the top of these buildings. The kids delighted in climbing to the very top of the hill and then run, crawling, jumping, rolling down the hill. Oh what fun! Ian and Sashi got covered in dirt... so much dirt that Sashi said, "i will never be clean again, mama." We stayed at the beach until hubby could no longer stand the bugs biting him. "We have to go now!" my darling grumbled.
The walk home was a lot of fun, Ian and daddy raced as fast as they could to see who could get home the fastest. Daddy won, because he took the shortcut up the road to the gas station. Ian looked at me and said, "where is daddy going...oh, we are going to get goodies!" In the store the children's eyes were wide with excitement of the goodies they could buy. Ian got skittles. Sashi got Hershey kisses. Wow! The kids were so happy with this outing with mom and dad. As we walked home, Ian said, "This was the best short walk we have ever been on mom." Oh the joys of being a kid and having simple pleasures.