Yesterday I dug up my tiny black bikini, grabbed a fleece house coat, and a towel. I then jumped into the Tahoe, and drove a block to the beach. To my disappointment, the Bay was COMPLETELY frozen! Inspired by the Polar Bear Plunge, or the Goose Bump Jump, as they call it around here I was going to take a dive in January. Here, on the East coast the averages of the day were highs of 41 degrees, and lows of 25. So, needless to say it would have been COLD!
Determined to do something new, or different today, I looked around the park located by our local beach... I saw nothing, but picnic tables, and trees. So, I climbed a tree! I hadn't done this since I was about seven, or eight years old. And, let me tell you that it is not as easy to climb a tree in your twenties as it is as a child! I wore Birkenstock styled clogs to the beach, so my first attempts to get up the trunk of the tree failed. I jumped back into the truck, went home, searched for my Puma's, and could not find them. So, I ended up climbing a tree in a pair of shoes meant to keep you on a skate board, my Converse. The Converse gave me hardly any traction so Mark lifted me up past the tree's trunk. With one or two steps up the trunk, I was sitting on the first branch... This of course was not satisfying, so I climbed up to the next branch where I was now around ten feet above the ground. To my five foot stature this felt more like twenty feet when looking down. 
This was SO much fun! It sound boring, but, it was fun laughing at ourselves trying to climb the tree! It was amazing how out of shape we were. The resistance bands we use obviously haven't helped us that much. I'd say the best part of the day would have been Mark being there with me. Climbing the tree alone wouldn't have been fun... It would have been satisfying, once I had done it (I'm always very satisfied once I've accomplished something that seemed hard at the beginning).. But, it was nice having someone to share the laughs with... Mark, and my children. Stephanie, and Rene enjoyed watching Mama and Daddy having fun. They were giggling, and laughing right along with us. 
Although, climbing a tree may not be something that most people would consider to be "extraordinary", having fun with someone that loves you while doing something as simple as climbing a tree most definitely is extraordinary! Grab someone that loves you, and enjoy doing something simple that will fill your ears with laughter! Have an awesome day! God Bless! Proverbs 15:13
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of theheart the spirit is broken.
Pslams 126:2
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing:then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
Luke 18:17
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
Matthew 18:4-5
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.
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