Today…

After a week of sickness, it seems that Maggie is on the mend. Samuel is still pretty snotty, but I am praying this illness runs its course in the next day or 2.

We have been locked away in the apartment for the last few days, so we decided to take a drive into the mountains. We have never been along this particular route, and it was just beautiful. We stopped at Clear Creek and let the kids play in the water. Samuel loves grabbing handfuls of rocks and chunking them. The weather at that elevation was about 70° and perfect. We rode with the windows down. It was a much-needed outing.

We also went to Golden Gate Canyon Park. There is an amazing lookout called Panorama Point. The signs show where to look out across the mountains and each mountain is labeled. We could see Estes Park from way up there, too. There are shaded hiking trails, and the leaves are golden on the Aspen trees. Scott and I always try to find places where we think my daddy will want to fly fish when he comes in November.

Before we left our little city for the peaks, we picked up Samuel’s glasses. When we first put them on him, we were face-timing with my mama. He cried so much. He had his eyes squeezed tightly shut while he wailed. So, we got a book to distract him. Once he opened his eyes, the change was incredible. We could see with our own eyes the recognition of being able to see better with his. He looked at the pictures in the book with such intensity. Then, he held his hands in front of his face and marveled at them. He got off of my lap and watched his feet as he walked. It really was amazing. From that moment, he did not try to take them off again, and the tears never returned. Thank you, Lord!

CLEAR CREEK