Happy Day

I just spent a week with my friend in Eden. We started out with 4 of us then 2 and at the end of the week our husbands and her children joined us. I loved staying up late the first night and talking to her until 4:30 AM. She is an amazing mom. They planned as a family on the way home to go to a special park. All the kids feel asleep in the car. Thus no park. When they woke up and found they had missed the park, they were sad. She is smart, she made it all better for them.
Guess what made everything alright??? A trip to McDonald's. Yip- a trip to where over a billion have been served. It made me think. Remember a time when McDonald's made it all better? Or when a trip to McDonald's was quite the event? I loved the Birthday parties I had at the Ronald McDonald Room in back of McDonald's. I was thinking about my childhood the entire week because we owned a condo in the area growing up. I walk down to where it was and rang the doorbell. I'm not sure who I thought would open the door. I guess in some childish way I was hoping it would be my family. I wish I could go back and be with all of them for a day. Today I saw my Friends little girl and when she was learning to talk all she could say was... Happy Day. It expressed her safe happy feeling inside. I love that she recognizes her emotions and expresses them. I wonder if I realized what a Happy Day I was having as a child?

The stay was beautiful. I loved seeing the fall leaves and the hot air balloons. I loved watching the sunsets and the sunrise. The beauty out every window. I loved watching the snow gently fall and the the landscape turn white. It really showed off the ski runs. It is a treasure up there. I also loved the late night talks with my friends. I loved waking up and hearing Kelsie think of every way possible to get my eyes open. We watched all these fun Halloweentown movies. I loved watching Scott hold the baby and enjoy it. OH HAPPY DAY!!!