Saturday Daydreams

It's a lazy Saturday and I'm home with Elle who has just decided to grace me with her presence.  I love this kid.  She has been playing in her room all day and has just decided...at 4:59 p.m. to come out into the living room to see what she was missing.  She crawled over to the patio door and gazed out the glass panel. I walked over to raise the blinds a bit more for her and as  I said "Elle, do you see outside, do you want to go outside?" my thoughts began to roll....for a moment I imagined elle...outside and able to walk and run for the very first time. It would be fall...cool and crisp outside...and sunny.  She would have acres and acres to run across.  There would be fall leaves in piles for her so if she fell, they would catch her and the noise of the crumbling leaves would make her laugh.  She would get up and run and run and run until she could run no more and she would run back to me and collapse at me feet laughing hysterically and sharing that big elle smile.

Elle won't run today...but I will always have hope for the future.