Spotted these beautiful deer yesterday morning going for a bike ride just after day-break. No filter, the ferns really were that vibrant shade because of the sun’s harsh angle in the early morning.
It was a wonderful ride.
Peaceful. Still. Very few cars on the road.
There are moments, when I’m watching deer eat their breakfast, or flying down a hill past sunlit groves and river bends, that I wonder if I ever would have found this if I hadn’t had my children so close together. If I hadn’t hit a low point during that crazy period in my life when I had two children under the age of two, 5 different scheduled naps a day between them, and never, ever enough sleep… would I have ever decided to do Couch to 5k?
Would I have stuck with running afterwards, if the relationship between exercise and how patient and happy I am as a parent wasn’t so evident and important?
The biggest challenge in my life required me to make the biggest transformation.
And now, here I am, joyfully cycling through the peaceful early morning.