My sunshine

I was feeling very down the other day. None of the usual compulsive diversions (junky eating, news/blog/email surfing, movies, etc) were sufficient to bring me up (that's always the case though, isn't it?). So finally I had the idea to take Ollie to the mall. We walked around Big 5 playing with all the different kinds of balls. Then we got to the escalators. He insisted on going up and down a few times. Then we ran across a station of those cars kids can sit in that shake. Cost 75 cents but it worked for a quarter for us somehow. Ollie is obsessed with cars these days. Calls them "dada" and won't stop talking about them. If he loses his little white range rover hotwheels car, you got problems. So, he liked the ride and just sat there for a while after the shaking was done. He cried when we finally left but we soon came across a big carousel. We rode that, which was cool, but nauseating. Then we played KB toys for a bit. After that we ran into a free play area that a bunch of other kids were playing in, so Ollie joined them. After that, we were late for dinner but were able to grab and split a junior cinnabon.

During our little outing, my mood went from 30 to 90 out of 100. Something about Oliver just makes me so deeply happy. I think God compensates for all the evil and dark in the world by flooding us with these joyful little ones. They are full of pure light, and nothing has more power to chase the dark away.