It made me chase after firetruck parades even when I didn't have kids following along:

It made us think that it would be a good idea to bike to the local farmer's market at the crack of dawn (not really the crack, but pretty early for Darrell).

So why did I convince him to go on a morning bike? Why because we signed up for this crazy race in two months:
The warrior dash
So I am glad the kids are back for many reasons, but especially so we won't go and do anything crazy that we might have been able to do in our 20's:). If you want to join us we are competing at 1:00 and I say competing in the loosest sense of the word. I think we are both hoping we will just finish.