1, Helping repair the lawn mower is more fun if you insist that your husband request tools using the names of medical instruments. Searching for a 7/16" wrench, as opposed to a 1/2" wrench, is not particularly captivating. " Scalpel! Clamp! Extractor!" is so much more entertaining, although it does tend to annoy the husband doing the repairs.
2. Taxes are more fun if you're getting a refund. I guess that's not a new revelation, but it's been awhile since I dealt with it. Owning our own business turned taxes into an entirely new monster. Appointments with the accountant, forms I had never heard of, and a return that required the heavy-duty stapler, after 30+ years of short forms put a new twist on the first quarter of 2016. The fact that I even think in quarters is a sign of the radical changes in my life. However - I have survived our first year in business without going to prison for mangling a myriad of tax laws, so that's a celebration in itself.
3. Playing the Candy Land board game with a 6-year-old is more fun when you are 54 and don't care that the laundry isn't folded, than it was when you were 34 and felt the need to be productive. When our children outgrew the classic board game, I was so worn out with it that I put it - along with Chutes and Ladders - in the donation box for the thrift store and vowed to never play again. Some twenty years later, I re-purchased both games to play with Miss P., a beautiful girl who spends time with us occasionally.
4. 6-year-olds don't care if you run like the arthritic, uncoordinated nerd that you are, as long as you are participating in a water-gun fight. Some 50-cent squirt guns and the willingness to "run" about
hiding behind trees and vehicles, brought out some priceless grins and giggles.
5. Doing even the smallest kindness for someone else makes the whole day better.
6. Be careful when you ask a child to sing you a song to fill time in the car. They may create a song about loving you forever and the tears make it difficult to drive. Miss P. melts my heart!
Hope you have learned some good things recently.
Today is Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday. I am a great fan of Her Majesty. She is a model of decorum, devotion, and duty. What you may not know is that she is also a model of faith. I am so impressed by her, that I gave away twenty copies of "The Servant Queen and the King She Serves" to church members and family. I thought I would share a few of my favorite quotes.
3. Playing the Candy Land board game with a 6-year-old is more fun when you are 54 and don't care that the laundry isn't folded, than it was when you were 34 and felt the need to be productive. When our children outgrew the classic board game, I was so worn out with it that I put it - along with Chutes and Ladders - in the donation box for the thrift store and vowed to never play again. Some twenty years later, I re-purchased both games to play with Miss P., a beautiful girl who spends time with us occasionally.