For a San Diego Afternoon

Today I am whole-heartedly missing San Diego. I just looked at a friend's blog and I recognized the slide she was taking her daughter down and I am flooded with memories of Juan and I at Balboa Park, at the zoo, Seaworld. . .Trolley Barn. Those years that it was just Juan and I and our adventures together. It feels a little like another life, and I miss it so much. It feels like those were OUR places and we left them behind. It is an overwhelming feeling at this moment. I suppose we just need to find our places here still, and it is harder here. It will take more work and more creative thinking. Surely our golden days weren't left behind in the tunnel at Trolley Barn, or with the Ankylosaur sorting blocks at the Natural History Museum, in the sand at Fanuel Park. Thank goodness for Mary Lu as she heads into this wonderful second year of adventure and discovery, she will help to propel us along toward new discoveries. Still, when I think of those SD places so dear to Juan and I, I imagine a part of us there--me in my earliest mothering and a two year old Juan full of wonder and curiosity.