The gooder choice

We were both off on Saturday. Late Saturday morning we went for a drive, stopped for lunch, then went back home. Then we started thinking about what we would do next. Mary wanted to prepare the house in order to have someone over after church, but then she decided she needed to take me shopping (it seems I need new and more clothes).

As we got into the car, preparing to leave, we discussed this. What should we do on a beautiful Saturday afternoon? Turns out, she really didn’t want to spend the afternoon in the store either. On our morning road trip we had seen kayakers on the river and that sure looked inviting. Mary said, “I don’t know what to do.”

 I said, “Well, you can clean the house and go shopping in order to have people over tomorrow, which is a good thing or we can go kayaking and spend time together, which is also a good thing.”

She responded, “We’ve already done the “Let’s each do something different” thing”. “Let’s go kayaking.”

And that’s what we did. And then that evening we went out to Texas Road House for supper.

With apologies to whoever we were going to have over after church, I think we made the gooder choice. And not just because kayaking is a lot more enjoyable than cleaning the house. No, we’ve done that ‘Let’s each do our own thing’ thing, and it didn’t turn out so good. Actually, we had two good days off together – went kayaking both days. That’s always good!