Joy

Joy, joy, the joys of being young. No inhibitions holding you back. No knowledge of the world's pain and darkness. No care of anything but the right now moment.
Oh the right now moments...how sweet they can be.

A "way cool" thing about raising kids...

you can show them how fun things can be. You can point them to jolliness and set them loose on it. "Hey boys! See these leaves spread all over the ground? Watch how fun they can be when you rake them into a pile!"

This kind of joy and enthusiasm is soooo contagious. I can't help but giggle just looking at the pictures and thinking about how much fun they had running back and forth jumping into the air with wild abandon and falling into the middle of it.


Birth order, bossiness and who's in charge all turned into comradery, uncontrolled laughter and...wait for it....joy.

So Cal is a little behind in the changing of seasons...because they have seemingly eternal amounts of summer...so yes it is the middle of December and yes there are Christmas lights everywhere buut these leaves just made there way to the ground. And since it's not very cold here even when it's "cold" we played for a good long time.

Take the laughter and store it up for a rainy day. It's times like these that get us over the next hill. Days like this that restore our souls and remind us that there's hope for something more. Their is fun out there waiting to be had so why sit in the sad corner? Go find some jolliness and make it happen. Rake that "mess all over the yard" into "the new exciting thing to do".


And smile big...don't forget to smile big.