This morning we’re sitting around the house, Atti’s crawling around playing with his toys and I’m hopping all over the internet trying to cross things off of my massive to do list. A free morning is an extremely rare thing around here, and ordinarily I’d treasure it, but today it’s sad. We’re only home because we’re not at REINS.
For the last three months we’d get up early every Thursday morning and drive out to the country so Atti could ride horses and I could soak up a blessed half hour of tranquility. It was the highlight of my week, every time.
But it’s done now. Once everything became final for the move, it was time for Spring Break. Now that Spring Break is ending, we’re too close to the move to keep going.
Just in those three short months, Atti has made such tremendous progress. He’s sitting up so much taller, his little tummy is so much stronger. And he loved those sweet gentle horses. He’d pat them on their fuzzy rumps, or bury his little fingers in the hair on their neck. Whenever I talked to him about his horses, Pancho or Grand, he’d just light up and then rock his body back and forth in a riding motion.
I’ve already looked into similar options in Modesto and there’s several to choose from. We’re moving to a more rural area, horses are not going to be hard to come by. But still. It’s sad to leave such a beautiful place where everything was going so well. Going there made us both so happy, and helped us both in our own ways.