Nostalgia

  Monday, after Travis came home from school, we took the kids out to the old dog park we took Colonel too when he was a puppy. Lots of nostalgia there. I remember Ben being gone to school or work and I felt like I sat around the house all the time so I was trying to be a good mom and decided to take Travis and Colonel for a walk. I put Travis in the stroller and hooked Colonel up to the leash. When we got out in front of our apartment Colonel got away from me and started running after the neighbor who was a grumpy old man that I did not like. I was deathly afraid he would run between his legs and knock him down. Luckily I caught him. I should have turned around right then and there, but I was determined to go on that walk so I had the stroller in one hand and the leash in the other. Colonel kept tugging at the leash. He never was a very good leash dog. Well, let's face it, he never was a very good dog period. He did have his moments though. Not this time however. As we were walking we got toward the end of the block and were going off the curb. Colonel wrapped himself around the stroller and took off running. I of course, Mom of the Year, did not have Travis strapped in the seatbelt. The stroller tipped over and Travis fell out of the stroller in the middle of the street. I said a few choice words and picked him up. That stupid dog kept running. I was going to just let him go because I was so mad, but then he stopped so I caught up to him and dragged his butt back to the apartment and that was the first and only time I ever attempted to go on a walk without Ben with me. Every time we drive past that park I always think of that day and how mad I was at that dog. That was a great park though. Lots of happy memories there. I remember Travis taking some of his first steps there in the middle of the field. We must have walked miles and miles around it. We went on a walk nearly every day between the time I woke up for the day and before I went to work. It is right behind our old apartment. It is pretty close by now. I don't know why it's taken me two years to take the kids out there, but I plan on taking them many more times this summer while Ben studies away.