On May 8, 2010, I published a blog post titled “10 Ideas for an Outdoorsy Mother’s Day”. The post got some feedback, but the Squidoo Lens I made on the topic has done pitifully – at least in the internet traffic department.
I was hoping to inspire moms to get active and do something besides going out to eat for Mother’s Day. Women are always complaining about the size of their hips and how guilty they feel for eating. I thought if they got moving they could relinquish their guilt, stay fit, and look and feel better.
After a delightfully slow-moving morning of snoozing in bed while my teen daughters prepared a brunch of scrambled eggs, lemony muffins, strawberries, and coffee, I stayed in my pajamas until 3:30 p.m. looking at slideshows of about 1600 digital photographs of the National Bison Range – that we had taken the day before on our annual trip to Moise.
Then, I took my own advice.
When that was over, I put on my bike pants and the family and I went out for a ride to the park.
Woodland Park was busy with families soaking up the sunshine.
We ran into the odiferous Bloombergs,
