Forget football...forget sleeping in late...forget the others chores...Jake wants to go spend the day in the country.
Picked him up from his apartment over by the college at 7am and we spent the day out playing in the country...just the two of us...just like when he was a youngster and we would come back to where we now live from Colorado on hunting trips. See the photo from 2001 below.
He thinks we were hunting today...but me? I was making another memory.
The hunting was mostly a bust...the weather was way too nice for what we were hunting.
But I got so much more out of the day than just a mere wall hanger or meal in the freezer.
I got to spend precious hours alone with my son...hours that are harder to come by as he grows into a life of his own.
10 years ago we would have spent 4 or 5 days together on a hunting trip...a trip that now lasts less than a full day as he had to go to work at his part time college job at 4pm.
But before he had to leave for his scheduled shift..he was all mine...just like the old days...if only for 7 hours.
The weather was in the mid 50's with sunshine...no wind...and no other distractions...no other people...and the only worry he had was if we were going to get stuck in the creek bottom...(I have driven through it hundreds of times...and no we did not). Although he will point out that a large snowdrift did capture us a few years ago and that is why he is leary.
I let Jake know how much I loved those trips years ago and the one last Sunday and this Sunday together and how much I loved him. And how proud I am at what he has accomplished in his 3+ years of college and how proud we are that he is an intern this semester for U.S. Senator Johanns and that he made the Deans list.
Yes, we had a very successful hunting trip! All we found today was a deer skull from the past, however...
I got the memory I was hoping for...
And I hope he got one as well!
Writers note: No animals were harmed in making this family memory!
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