The White Bench

Ryan celebrated his 7th birthday on August 22 and so I traveled to Yorba Linda to join his party. He has so many wonderful little friends who played pin the tail on the donkey, had a water balloon toss and enjoyed cake and pizza. The real celebration for me was the next day and the day after when we attended Peyton's soccer tournament in which Ryan really preferred to be home riding his scooter. He brought the scooter with us to the tournament so he could play. We watched a little of Peyton's outstanding footwork on the field and then it was off on our journey through this beautiful neighborhood in Corona, CA. Ryan would ride his scooter about 10 feet, stop and wait for me to catch up to him. He would ride again and I would walk at my less then scooter speed pace and join him by his side and this is how went until we saw the white bench. Ryan was tired and needed a rest break from all this scootering around and he spotted in someone's front yard a white bench (actually a porch swing) and it was under their shade tree. Without hesitation in "trespassing" he set his scooter on the sidewalk and walked up their sidewalk and sat peacefully in the swing and I sat beside him. We rested there for perhaps 15 minutes and then he was ready to continue. Well the tournament went on from 8am until 2pm that day and so we must have taken our little journey to this bench some 5 times resting in between our scootering and walking bliss. I don't know what heaven is like, but I hope it has a porch swing so that I may sit and rest awhile with Ryan by my side. Saturday and Sunday were heaven on earth during our journey to and fro and resting on our white bench.