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Sometimes We Go Outside

11 May 2016
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I have this chronic condition that’s really been a huge annoyance to my family over the years.  But it’s one of those things that you will only understand if you have it too, so I don’t really expect them to understand.  I wonder if you’ve heard of it.

It’s called, “NOUT”.

Does it ring any bells?  Another pronunciation is “NO-OUT”, although as this is the verbally challenged toddler form of the word, so you may not be familiar with this either.  Anyway, you might be aware of the symptoms.  Ah yes, the symptoms dear friends are the key to unlocking the nonsense of this condition.  Commonly the symptoms vary from not owning any pairs of warm shoes to clinging onto the door frame kicking and screaming as loving family members try and perform an intervention by forcefully taking you outside.

Basically, the outdoors?  It’s not for you.

And not like the outdoors as in hiking up a mountain – that’s just a mild case.  No, no, the chronic condition that I have includes the garden.  I don’t want to sit in it.  Ever.

Look, I apportion the blame onto the other chronic condition I have called “I’m A Forked Tongue Away From Being A Lizard”.  Do lizards even have forked tongues?  I don’t know.  These analogies are getting confusing.

The long and the short of it is that I’m basically a lizard – cold blooded to the core.  What’s that you say?  Lizards live outside and enjoy basking in the sunshine?  You just shut your mouth right now so I can keep making up silly conditions to have.  Maybe that’s another condition. Flip.

Anyway.

In summary:  I get cold easily.  Going outside makes me cold.  And there’s bugs.  And me no likey.

Which really isn’t a problem anymore because I no longer have to watch my kids play outside in the afternoon.  They’re big enough to just let loose and only drag myself away from the warmth of my book (jokes – who has time for that – I mean drag myself away from the warmth of the oven that I’m busy cooking supper in) when there’s a blood curdling scream emanating from the garden.  Which is roughly every 5 – 7 minutes.

Seth on the other hand?  He could live in the wild.  Well, until he ran out of gym videos to watch anyway.  Kidding, kidding.  There’s a gym in the wild right?  Kidding, kidding.

Which means that he often takes them outside to run off some extra energy in the afternoon and now that they can ride their bikes with no training wheels, it means regularly running up and down the road in front of our house.

One afternoon I had a miraculous recovery and joined them outside.  With my camera.

The rest, as they say, is history.

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Also, throw back to when they were first able to ride bikes at all!  I think Knox was still a teeny tiny bubs then.

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Sometimes We Go Outside was last modified: May 11th, 2016 by 321Blog
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Sharon 11 May 2016 at 12:49 PM

Are you serious…. I am ALWAYS outside. The most worn chair in our house is the one that sits on the corner of our patio, my butt practically lives in it. It’s where I spend all my spare time with my Kindle and coffee (or wine) while my girls and dogs play their hearts out in the garden, riding bikes, jumping on the trampoline or in the sandpit.
I live to be outside. Even if I have to wear my gown over my work clothes just to keep warm!

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321Blog 12 May 2016 at 9:42 AM

It’s weird, but I just really don’t enjoy it at all. The kids love it though so I’m trying not to let my own weird things affect them – which is hard, because I keep wanting to shout, “Come inside it’s cold!!”

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Dawn Clulow 11 May 2016 at 1:08 PM

Long skirts and boots, perfect bike riding apparel. love it.

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321Blog 12 May 2016 at 9:40 AM

I know right! Made for it!

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Kim Muller 12 May 2016 at 7:56 AM

I really can’t relate to not wanting to be outside 🙂 I LOVE being outdoors. My husband is a keen fisherman, so we’re out often together. Him doing his thing with his rod (o_O) and me running around with the boys. Anyway, I love the photos and how happy your children look. Glad you recovered a bit to join everyone outside that one day 🙂

PS: I really need to find a way to have a girl baby. I am absolutely in love with the bananas dress!

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321Blog 12 May 2016 at 9:38 AM

I know! I realise now that I may be the only human in the universe that feels like this hahaha!

The banana dress is the best! My brother brought it back with him from Thailand 🙂

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Autumn Light | 3 Kids, 2 Dogs and 1 Old House 12 May 2016 at 11:39 AM

[…] So as it turns out, despite the fact that I would prefer to remain inside under the covers with a good book for a large portion of the rest of my life, my children have other ideas.  Instead they make me do things that I don’t want to do, like go outside. […]

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