Rain Rain Go Away!

Ok It’s been raining a lot recently and all your plans for having fun with the kids have been disrupted. But all this rain has reminded me of one of my most precious memories with Adam and an experience that lead me to writing children’s books, which would never have happened if I'd let the rain interfere with fun with the kids.

So almost exactly 5 years to the day a couple of dads got together to organise an overnight camp out in the sand dunes of the beautiful Brittas Bay beach. Everything was organised and the excitement paramount. 

When camp day finally arrived it was accompanied by the rain of all rains and total panic ensued. The Met Office radar updates showed the rain was down for the day and one by one the dads dropped like flies. “It’s too wet”, “we’ll catch our death out there”, “we can’t bring the kids out in that”, “no way, I didn’t sign up for this.”

Undeterred I kept checking the Met Office radar updates every 15 minutes and deduced that the rain would stop by about 9pm and it was still worth going for it. After a small amount of convincing 4 dads stuck with me and said “what the hell, let’s just do it, sure the worst thing that can happen is that we will have a great story to tell and to laugh about when the kids are older.” Us 4 dads became instant heroes to a rendition of cheers and excited screams.

After a wet but fun start to our campout the rain stopped, we got the campfire going and roasted marshmallows, ate burgers, sang songs and told scary stories, it was amazing. The following morning we were woken up by powerful happy endorphins radiated by the early morning sun, with a single puff cloud in an otherwise perfectly blue sky.

This was to be my most treasured memory of Adam and a lesson for me to never give up on anything especially when it comes to having fun and creating magical moments with the kids. So my message is to remember that there is always something magical and wonderful locked away and hidden in what appears to be horrible or difficult, and to unlock it all you need is love, laughter and fun in the family.

The first book I ever wrote in memory of Adam was inspired by that particular day, the fun we had and a magical moment I am blessed to have shared with Adam. It’s funny it is as vivid now as it was 5 years ago. 

If you've had any magical moments of your own that you'd like to share just post them below, or on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/AdamsCloud, or you can email them to me directly at benjisblog@adamscloud.com.  Thanks!

Till next week

Love hugs and kisses to all.