by Maggie Downs posted in Life

Last Saturday it finally happened. Temperatures dropped well below 100 degrees in my desert city, and my son was excited to go outside and explore dusty mountain trails.
He?s a desert boy through and through, comfortable negotiating cacti, scrambling over craggy boulders, and chasing lizards. He?s rambunctious too, often leaping before he looks. And that has turned me into the mom I never wanted to be ? the ?be careful!? one. ...