Tiny Town

Yesterday, my mom, Gilby, and I took the kids to Tiny Town in Morrison, which is exactly what it sounds like, a miniature town geared toward kids. They have a train ride, miniature town to walk through, and a playground. We had a good time.

But, before I write more about our day trip and post a bunch of pictures of our smiling family, I feel inclined to share that although genuine, these smiles and the fun family things I write about only show part of our life. One of the things I struggle with since social networking has become so popular, is the ability it gives people to publicly share all the great things going on in life without acknowledging the struggles. I read a quote recently that stated,

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel. -Steve Furtick

Our family does have a lot of fun, and we are really proud of our kids and the people they are becoming, but we have bad moments, bad days, bad weeks...just like everyone else. I yell at my kids and regret it later, Gilby and I bicker, some days the TV runs longer than it should, Sydney and Myles throw tantrums, hit each other, fight over toys, and sometimes I feel completely inadequate as a wife and mother. But, I intend for this blog to serve as a scrapbook for my family to look back on, and typically people don't write about the most recent fight they had with their spouse, or post pictures of their kids throwing tantrums, and I don't intend to either. But know that it happens.

Whew, now that I got that off my chest...

We left the house yesterday a little later than planned, made a quick stop at the Golden Farmer's Market (one of our favorite places to get summer produce!), and headed to Tiny Town. A mere 25 minutes later we arrived. Gilby looked over at me with a bit (or a lot) of skepticism, and I have to admit it didn't look that great. But, we headed in and after the kids had some lunch they perked up, started to run from building to building, and had a lot of fun. We spent a good amount of time at the park, walked back through the miniature town, and rounded out our trip with the 9-minute train ride (my favorite part!).