i’m a sucker for temptation. i’m a sucker for a challenge.

these are not the best traits to bring to the task of parenting.

when we got to the falls on the boulder river trail there was a huge log suspended on a rock just begging to be knocked off.

we of course didn’t want our five or three year old to get too close to the creek so i had to control the impulse to climb out on the rocks and attempt to free the log.

but surveying the situation i can envision a day when ethan comes home soaking wet, clothes in ruin after falling in a river trying to do something stupid like dislodge a water logged stump perched on a rock in a surging mountain river.

his mom will ask “what was he thinking” and i’ll have the answer, but it won’t be the one she wants, because i too can only imagine one thing to do when being confronted with this temptation…