Journal Prompt: Write About One of the Best Days of Your Life
“Did you have a good day then, mum?” my 9 year old son asked as I tucked his tired and tiny little frame into bed last night.
“Good day? Blake, it was one of the best days of my life.”
“REALLY???”
“Yes, definitely. I thought I would hate it but I was just so proud of you and your dad looked well hot too!”
We both laughed. Kissed, cuddled. “Love you mum. You’re the best” he whispered into my neck as I hugged him tight and I collapsed myself into bed after a long, hot and dusty day.
That was yesterday. It was one of the most unexpected best days of my life. Here is why…
The Bike Obsession Begins – for Both of Them!
At the beginning of the year, my husband Shaun said he wanted to get a motorbike. For years I have said this is a stupid idea and have said a very firm ‘no’ when it came to any kind of motorised bike on two wheels.
We’d bought Blake a quad bike for Christmas and as the two of them had sat watching YouTube videos for hours about quads, it showed pictures of dirt bikes on dirt tracks and brought it all back for my husband. His dad had raced bikes when he was younger and Shaun reminisced about his childhood hobby and how he’d like to take it back up.
After Christmas, I don’t know if it was the winter blues or me putting the brakes on his dreams but Shaun was quite down. We agreed that since we’d renovated the house, he’d lost his purpose a little and it was all work then home, work then home with no hobbies in between. I had started working on a Sunday on the radio and he was spending more and more time being a hermit.
I realised that in our 13 years together, he’s always supported me in my dreams and crazy endeavours. So why was I not being supportive? I know I was worried about injury and the fact that bikes are dangerous but during an open and honest conversation about it, he made the very good point that his job involveshim dealing with hundreds of thousands of volts of live electricity every day. He has a dangerous job. So what was the difference?
It was a great point made and so he started to look for a dirt bike for himself.
As his birthday approached, he treated himself to all his new bike gear and he changed instantly. He was excited, happy and couldn’t wait to get on his bike. He was like the old cliched kid at Christmas. Here he is, pretending to ride his bike in his new kit.
Trying to work out my new blog and I need this video in a post I'm writing. It won't display, but it pulls in vids from Facebook. So gonna upload it here so I can put into the blog.All will become clear later.This was Shaun back in January wearing his birthday present to himself – his new bike gear for his new dirt bike.
