Realizations at the beach

I realized 2 things yesterday.

1. I don't know how to have fun with my kids. I know how to love them, change them, clean them, discipline them, but I don't know how to have fun. I must work on this.

2. I need to stop letting the end of the trip (when everyone is tired, cranky, hungry, thirsty,  and pissed off) entirely color the excursion itself. Just because the leaving was bad doesn't mean that the entire trip was a horrible.