From the Edge of the Envelope: One Saturday

I know I have been gone.........

It has been near impossible to bring myself to be creative and lively. The weather here is so gloomy, even the winter birds are hiding...... It has snowed, rained, or hailed for seven days straight. I am beginning to wonder if spring will ever come. Which brings us to the topic at hand , which is really patience. I have little, ok that is a bit extreme patience is not my strong suit. Now some would argue that is completely wrong I have more patience than anyone they know . Thank you and yeah I am improving in some areas. Some would argue that I have never had any, which is a bit much I do have some....... Seriously though. We are waiting and waiting and waiting, waiting to hear when we will move, where we will move. They tell us at least 4 weeks, really and the daily calls to pester don't change the answer. I dislike waiting living in limbo, we can't move forward here because we are leaving and on standby, we can't prepare because we have no answers, we can't look forward because we have no answers. Did I mention the sun hasn't shined in seven days either......

Now before you or I despair, I have to say there was a silver lining one saturday......

One Saturday it was possible to find a secret hideaway right here in Stuttgart.....

Where you ask?......

Sensapolis !

In this place there are so many exciting things, the perfect place to imagine far away kingdoms,

animals of the forest,

aliens in space, and how fast to the bottom of a slide.......

The perfect hiding place from gloomy rain and snow.......

There is a spaceship for those who like really faraway places, where you can live like an alien travel through space tunnels ride noisy metal slides to galaxies where aliens and pirates are side by side.....

This place where books can fly,

husbands can be king,

and the bathroom floor is full of sparkly jewels........

One can forget the gloom with super slides and mazes, science facts and quizzes......

I have to say you can even go and play in a pool of stimulating water, with boats and games galore......

There is the tree house where the pirate ship ends..... where a dragon has become a slide

and foam balls fly through the air........

There are Royal balls to dance at, halls to roam,

tunnels to crawl through and an endless amount of stairs that lead to places I can't even describe because the colors and objects defy the senses......

For one gloomy Saturday we found a silver lining right in our own backyard.....What does this mean........

Well what are we waiting for? Our real life to start? The moment to be right? The planets to align or the sun to come out?......even spring to arrive.......?

We have never had "time" to go because we were always planning or taking grander adventures, we had planned to go it was on our list.........

It is time to live in the moment if that is all that is possible then that is what to do.....

When waiting makes you crazy, and you are stuck in limbo, and you have very little patience for this....... Then the thing to do is find all of those small things on your list to do....

You can do in the moment things, even if they don't help change the big things. They remind you that life is now and that every moment does count and some gloomy Saturdays it is best to laugh and run and use your imagination......... Then you find that silver lining that makes everything worth the wait.......

Go to your closet, and find your list of things to do..... slip on your imagination......