The things our children can teach us.....

Today was (until about 10 minutes ago) a wonderful Spring/Summer day. We pulled out the slip and slide - well that poor thing had a life span of about 20 minutes before Miss L decided that the end (that is filled with water) looked like a soft place to park her tush - somehow I don't think it it had been weight tested to her delicate frame (all approx 29kg of her) and predictably it popped .... and water was everywhere....

Needless to say many tears ensued at the prospect of that being it - that they couldn't use it anymore.

Once they calmed down I pointed out that when I was their age *cough* 27 *cough* years ago (which was met with the usual 'when the dinosuars were around....' thanks for that children......) that I didn't have the soft and squishy end bit, you just kept on sliding - and then proceeded to show them how we used to do it (thank goodness for 6 ft high fences is all I can say or my neighbours would have been in a massive state of shock).

Then the rains came, and the hail (tiny miniscule barely there hail) - so my children being my children ran outside in the rain - and I ran with them....and remembered what it is like to be a child - and I owe that to my children, for getting me up and running in the rain., for reminding me that I don't have to be the grown up all the time.

Life's too short - don't sit and watch it pass you by, run in the rain and laugh, take a moment to find animals in the clouds, make up a nonsense song - everyone needs to release their inner child every now and again :)