Living Arrows 2021 – Week 4 – Mummascribbles

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth”

Under normal circumstances, I would probably be sharing photos of our snowy Sunday, but whilst that was lovely, something in the week was far better. And I am going for a slightly different angle this week because I’m not focusing on individual photos, instead sharing some of both of them (because I didn’t get any individual shots!).

I mentioned last week that we were going to scrap our weekend walks because it was so busy over the Country park and we stuck to that this week, with me taking them for a weekday walk over there instead.

They are obsessed with dinosaurs at the moment, owing to Zach playing a lot on the Jurassic World game on the PC, and they often go around hunting them at home. They decided on our walk that they would be dinosaur hunters and honestly, they (and I) just had the best time. We went to the Country park and headed into the gated field that we used to take Buster (our dog) in when he was still a baby and couldn’t be trusted off lead. The field leads into another field and that then leads into a wooded area that we haven’t ever actually ventured into.

Walking through the field, they were busy looking for clues, tracks and footprints whilst also splashing in puddles! Every now and then Oscar would say to Zach, “Sir, I think I’ve found something”, and they would investigate something together. It was honestly just the cutest!

We then ventured into the bit down the end where we had never been and we discovered that it goes round a small lake in a circle. Very muddy it was – there was lots of squelching, lots of sticks to collect, lots of water to investigate! And the whole time, lots of dinosaurs to hunt.

As we got back round and into the field, Zach declared that the dinosaurs had awoken, they had been disturbed, and they were after us! This meant only one thing – we had to run back through the field and get back through the gate before they could get us. It was close – especially with this poor Mummy having to run with her super long coat on and wellies, but we just about made it through before the dinosaurs got us! We then stood, back out in the pathway with our sticks, held them up in the air and declared “DINOSAUR MIGHT” three times as Zach declared the dinos extinct!

And then we went home!

Honestly, watching the pair of them together, role playing, laughing, hunting, bonding, just made my heart melt and I enjoyed our little outing so, so much. I have to remind myself that if this were normal circumstances, Zach would be at school all day, and so them having this time together, these adventures together, is a real benefit of these rubbish circumstances. It’s hard to remember that a lot of the time when they are driving me up the wall at home!