Let's be honest .. it's not easy to take kids ages 4,2, and 1 hiking on a Saturday morning without a daddy(at the base) but somethings we do out of sheer boredom, need for adventure/spontaneity and ... mommy points. Because you get a lot more "oh wow good for you", "how fun", and "I bet they loved it" when you tell people you went to hike a waterfall on a Saturday rather than the normal well we went to the park. Luckily, I had a willing cousin that answered the desperate text of "want to be crazy and take the kids hiking today.. we are daddy-less" with a "pick me up in 30 min!" ... We really had a blast and I can't tell you how good it was for my soul to be out enjoying the Lord's creation with my kids:)
