A Bee’s-Eye View | Part 4: Simple Pleasures

Posted on January 24, 2010

Today I really wanted to get the boys outside to play. We were all sick last weekend, then we had a busy week of school and activities, and yesterday we spent five hours in a car and a few more at a swim meet. Today was a day for them to just relax and be kids. After letting them hang out with the tv and their iPods this morning, I made them go outside after lunch. I had a bunch of work to do, so I was hoping for some uninterrupted peace and quiet. It was a perfect day for them to be out, too. Sunny, and warm enough to be out for a while without getting cold, but still cold enough to bundle up. Even so, I was skeptical that they would stay out very long. They have a tendancy to get bored easily, especially if their neighbor friend isn’t home (which she wasn’t). Usually they go out for ten minutes and then start fighting and asking me to come back in. So when I heard the door open a few minutes after they went out, I prepared myself for a battle. But it was just Grant, asking me if we had any sleds. We don’t. The boys have never really been into sledding. Grant had a semi-traumatic experience on a sled when he was a toddler, and the subject of sledding just really hasn’t come up since then. So there we were, sledless. And then I did what any cool mom would do – I gave him two of my baking sheets. :)

And they worked! They made perfect sleds for the little “hill” in the neighbor’s back yard (really just a small incline, but you take what you can get I guess). And the boys stayed out there for almost two hours! They had fun and I got my work done – a perfect afternoon. Who needs those expensive, high-tech sleds? Snow, boys, a little hill, and some baking sheets – the simple things in life are the best.

(This first picture is my official picture for the week, but I just had to share some others as well.)



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