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I smiled up at him. “This is pretty good,” I said. “This isn’t bad at all.”
He looked at the lake, back at the cottage, at the kids, and at me. “Not bad at all,” he echoed. “I’d say just about perfect.”
“Mommy, Emerson is trying to eat rocks!”
“Who wants to ride on Daddy?” he suggested.
We all did, because we loved him so much. Somehow, he balanced four kids and me in his big arms, latched onto his back, and riding on his shoulders.
“You know who’s the luckiest person in this whole world?” he asked us. “Me.”
I was starting to disagree and say that I was, but then he dunked us and we all came up laughing. The sun wouldn’t set for a little while, and there was plenty of time left in the day to play together, plenty of time to love each other.
And there was so much more ahead of us.
