Along with milk and vegetables, kids need dirt and worms to grow.
Today my children spent all day in the pasture playing in the dirt. They were so enthusiastic about their game. I was given breathless snippets of updates each time they dashed through the house for a drink of water or restroom break. Other than that I didn't see or hear them for an entire afternoon!
At the end of the day they tramped back to our house, covered from head to toe in mud and dirt. (I won't mention what my floors looked like after this parade!)
They were exuberant in their accomplishment and begged me to take a tour of their dirty creation.
(Pun totally intended!)
Very proudly they led me into the pasture, their faces all glowing with unconcealed pleasure.
With a grandiose wave of his arms, Matthew said, "Ta-DA!"
They had spent all day digging a trench.
It was over 100 feet long.
They said it was the best day ever.
I was reminded yet again by my little ones to enjoy the little pleasures of being alive.
I am so happy where we live!
(As a side note, Nathan and I have wanted to dig a Polynesian-style BBQ pit big enough to roast an entire pig...I wonder if the children would be so obliging as to take care of the excavation....)
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