A Day of Crawdads and Minnows

This was fun.  I haven't waded in a creek for many decades (I won't say how many).  I know kids get lost in electronics and somehow lose that human interaction that they need, so I try to keep my kids' childhood alive by doing the "old school" things I used to do when I was a …

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New City, New Neighborhood, New Friends

It all started with going outside to play with a tube of bubbles Liam's teacher had given him on the last day of school.  He came home and put them aside, but woke up the next day, the official first day of summer break, to play with them.  While he was outside, our neighbor and her two little …

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Water Balloons

After our little fun at Riverview Park , I took my mom back home.  Before we left, she gave them a ton of water balloons.  The boys couldn't wait to get home and play!  Liam kept saying, "Can we go?  Can we go?"  That's unusual for him because he loves going to my mom's to visi…

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