tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2904534210976358782.post8738504336378553667..comments2023-05-11T06:01:57.977-07:00Comments on Family Tracks: Summer monstersDebbie Jansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13081670752103539862noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2904534210976358782.post-73074249162332435282007-05-31T10:31:00.000-07:002007-05-31T10:31:00.000-07:00It is funny how "Summer Monsters" was written at t...It is funny how "Summer Monsters" was written at this time.<BR/>I was just thinking of how we tend to schedule everything in our lives. However, I never see "spontanious" scheduled. Those of us who are stay at home parents can be just as guilty of scheduling "fun" as those parents who both work outside the home. Fun cannot be written down in our daily planner. Fun just happens and is usually caused by something simple. Catching lightning bugs, wrestling in the yard, wrestling in the living room, but mostly when we let our minds run free and go with the flow.<BR/>Recently my wife and I were discussing buying the boys a swing set of some kind, but because of lack of funds, we weren't sure how we were going to do it. The Lord knows the disires of your heart. Less than 24 hours later our nieghbor across the street aproached me and asked if we would like to have a "free" swing set, all I would have to do was haul it across the street. I quickly said yes and thanked them profusely. Here is the best part--it was built by hand 15 years ago for their kids by their father with his own two hands with his kids in mind. The kids are now grown and out of school and this swing set had just been sitting taking up space. The best part of this whole thing and the thing that I will never forget is when I told the boys. Picture this. I took them to the end of the driveway to where they could see the swing set in the neighbors yard and I asked them to look across the street at the swing set and asked them if they would like to have it. The screams of joy and the jumping up and down is a sight that I won't soon forget and a memory that is burned into my memory for many years to come. But the memories they will make swinging, sliding and climbing are the most precious ones of all. Joyful memories at zero cost. Even better is the fun the boys had watching me and three other guys carry this monster across the street and into their back yard. They told every person who happened to walk our way just where we were takling that contraption. Unscheduled fun. It just happened and today the the boys were still talking about how cool it was to "help" us move it across the street.<BR/>You can't schedule true memories. You can't always organize real fun, sometimes we have to just let go and do something foreign to us....nothing...and have fun doing it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com