I am so very thankful for my MIL on days like this.  We got to take a nice long ride up the mountain because my MIL offered to keep the little one for the afternoon.  It’s been so long since I’ve gotten to do that, and I really needed that ride.  I’ve had a lot of things going on lately, and I really needed that opportunity to clear my head.

I don’t know how often we’ll get to ride in the near future because we may not have the funds to do so.  Then again we may be parking the truck and taking the bike everywhere the little one doesn’t go with us because we got some rather bad news today.  It looks like Hubby is going to be laid off for an extended period of time, at least until New Year’s, so if he doesn’t find another job soon (or if the boss doesn’t find work for him soon) we’ll be scraping pennies just to put gas in the bike!