Don't Be Fooled

This is one of my all-time favorite scenes.  It captures such beauty - little June on cross-country skis, the quiet winter, being out there, in the woods, snow on the trees, adventure, snow-shoes, closeness to cold weather nature.  For the hour we were there, I was in heaven.

But, don't be fooled.

The price of this quiet beauty was 3 hours of unimaginable drama and noise, spurred by ill-fitting winter attire, injustices in our family, missing toothbrushes, itchy hats, screaming little brothers, screaming sisters, "stupid-heads", and mysteriously invisible boo-boos.

I will always have that Waldon Pond moment.  But to be true to life, I'll have to remember it all.