forts & lunch & hide-n-go seek

someday i'm gonna want this tuesday back...someday when my boy is grown and my house is empty and my hands aren't quite as busy.  so there is some urgency behind how i spend my tuesday.  i could fill it with fb, or email or pinterest...photography, or artwork or reading (and somedays i do) but today i wanted to live it well--to the full.  that's a tall order with no money, no friends and no where to go;)  but factor in a lil imagination and anything could happen...

with the girl gone during at school during the day...it's just me and the wonderboy.  i love the everyday fun we make together. not the kind that costs alot or is really complex or time consuming or all planned out...just a little fortbuilding and song singing and hide n go seek lunch is good enough for me.

so we grabbed all the pretty blankets in the house and drug them out to the screened in porch area to build a fort that wouldn't get in this momma's way in the livingroom;)  we quickly discovered the walls were cement out there so there would be no cheating and tacking our fortress into the wall to hold it up....so we got reallllly creative and used ladders and books and chip clips and things of that nature.  it's a tough job to build a fort with a four year old--they have all these crazy ideas and plans...that are not my own:)  but build it we did....just in time for lunch.  

when jae was little i'd play a little game with her lunch...and i just realized the other day that i've never done it with rhett!  it's called hide n go seek lunch!  so i make their lunch, pack it up and hide it all over the house...then they have to find it.  sometimes the game turns into hot and cold, sometimes it's played with no hints at all and sometimes i just point and giggle.  it's wayyyyy fun and an EASY way to gain SUPERMOM status in a preschooler's eyes.  who knew finding broccoli in the oven and capri sun in the fireplace would be such a riot?  he LOVED it.  just like his big sissy did not too long ago...

so naturally we took our hide n go seek lunch and ate it in the tent (of course)...and rhett sang me songs and we battled mr claw (from inspector gadget) together.  these are the best days.

funny thing, this tuesday was free and i wouldn't trade it for solid gold.    from now on i think we'll find something free and creative to do every tuesday...