In thinking about spontaneity I am reminded of a quote from “Will and Grace” (one of my favourite TV shows):
“You’re always saying we should be more spontaneous…” Grace
“I know, I just didn’t expect it to happen so suddenly!” Will
As a full-time working mum with a toddler, I don’t often do spontaneous things, especially those involving said Toddler – I don’t know about you – but it isn’t easy. They often come with a lot of baggage, and there is bed-time, nap-time, food, nappy changes, mood, toys – so many variables that need to be considered!
Bravely my husband suggested that after work we go for an impromptu picnic with Nate and our Border Collie. Great idea – I thought! The weather was lovely, so on my lunch break I ran out to get a few picnic items and then immediately after work, we collected Nate from nursery, rushed home, grabbed our picnic essentials (which included: picnic bag, blanket, food, toys, our dog Cali and some camping chairs). We were able to get out of the house within 10 minutes and drove over to a lovely spot in Great Linford, alongside the Grand Union Canal.
We had a lovely time! It was so nice to be out in the early evening, usually at this time we dash home, one of us cooks dinner, the other tries to entertain Nate while doing other chores round the house, then we eat, Nate has his milk and then it’s off to bed. However, last night we had a lovely picnic together, no food preparation needed, and then we all walked along the canal and followed that by playing football.
Nate is deep in his transport phase right now too, so he was eager in pointing out all the boats, bikes and airplanes that went by.
Please feel free to share with me your moments of spontaneity with your children, did it work out? It is not an easy thing to do, but when it works you get magic moments like this:
Feeding the Kat 
Like your blog.
Also the theme looks very similar! 😉
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LOL I know, when I clicked through to your blog I thought: how did I get back to my blog! Duh! Thanks for following me, I have very few followers 😦 but it’s ok because I am new to blogging.
Kat
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I’m the same. You’ve just have to get out there and ‘pimp’ yourself! 😉 x
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I am usually not the spur the moment but my husband happens to be…usually we end up at mutual friends place, now I am packing away coz I have just been informed we are leaving to Newcastle to meet some cousins in the on evening!! As for getting more followers I recommend join some mommy communities on google, I had only 7, but it’s grown to 50 in a month or so
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Thank you Chetana! Now it’s my turn to ask you advice – what do you mean by communities on google? Do you mean google plus? If not could you direct me?
Thanks
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I think we learn with young children that routine is our saviour, so it can be scary to do something out of the ordinary as they grow older. But you’re right, I think you learn what works most of the time for your kids, so as long as it’s in keeping with their style spontanaeity should be good
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Thanks for you comment, and I agree routine is definitely our saviour, but nice to shake it up once in a while.
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