They Make Me So Happy
My kids, that is. They give me so much joy. I can’t imagine my life without them. The things that they do and say…words can’t describe the way they make me feel.
Wednesday night, after church, I was standing on the front porch of the church, and the kids were playing in the parking lot and grass nearby. Someone drew my attention to the fact that Kyra was walking through a grassy ditch filled with rainwater. I think they were suprised when I just smiled at her. The way I looked at it, it wasn’t hurting her, it wasn’t ruining her clothes, the water was clean, the weather was warm…what’s the harm in letting her have fun? Elijah soon joined in, and found that, not only was it fun to walk, run, and stomp through, but it was also a great deal of fun to sit down hard, splashing water up around him. Several of the women acknowledged that it wasn’t hurting anything to let them have their fun, and I’m sure a couple of them were silently disapproving. So what if I had to strip them down to ride home in little more than their birthday suits? They had fun, and I got a sweet memory.
Sometimes, you just have to not worry about decorum quite so much, and just let them be kids.
