Nightly Ritual

Every night just about, after dinner, the Parrish's take their family walk. It started as a way for us to break up the evening, when the post-dinner madness begins. We dread the winter months when the shortened days keep us indoors, instead of taking our walks. During those LONG months, the kids go bonkers, jumping on the furniture and acting like caged animals until bed. So, when spring comes, so do the walks begin again. Tonight's walk had a purpose though. On our way home from Girl Scouts today, Emma and I saw 2 large dead snakes in the road, so we figured after dinner we'd take the whole family and check them out. Now, aren't you glad that I didn't include pictures of that? When we got to the bigger of the 2 snakes, it wasn't flattened yet by car tires. Well, I didn't see there were flies on it and when we approached the snake and something moved, I screamed and grabbed Emma and Reece and Adeline just froze. It really looked like the thing was about to strike. Darn flies. So, after getting our good look at the snakes, we headed to our favorite spot to play. The big tree that has 2 signs on it saying Keep Off, that we ignore and the kids climb up into the branches. Its on the old folks communities property and they are grouchy old curmudgeons anyhow, and I say, why should they get to use our road to drive down, if we can't climb in their trees? So we do.