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• Dec. 7, 2007 - If You Give a Child a Rainy Day...

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They will ask to play outside.  Then they will come back in and ask if they can set up a tent.

Once in the tent, they will come back in and ask if they can make hot chocolate to drink in the tent.

After the hot chocolate they will decide they need a snack of buttered toast and candy.

Then they will come back in the house, get their blankets and drag them out to the tent.

They'll come back for their pillows.

Then it will be decided it would be nice to play a game or two but not knowing which game the children will take several back to the tent with them.

Then someone will come retrieve the cat who is for the most part an indoor creature who ventures out on rare occasions to sniff the air and taste the grass. 

Half an hour later a wet, traumatized cat will be dumped back into the house.

Finally, after dark, the children will come into the house for good, laughing, and lugging all of their things back in, and hoping that tomorrow will be another rainy day.

Yes, my children did all of this and I let them. 




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• Dec. 7, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by skdenfeld
Sounds like a great day. Unless, of course, you were the cat.
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• Dec. 8, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by patchworkofgrace
Sounds like a wonderful day full of adventure!
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• Dec. 8, 2007 - You let them

Posted by SteveWalden
And good for you (and them). They will not remember all the loads of laundry, the thousands of ceramic tiles cleaned or the late nights you've spent balancing the checking account, but they will remember the time they went out in the tent for the rest of their lives.
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• Dec. 8, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Bluejane
It was a lot of fun too!

Bluejane
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• Dec. 8, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by KarenW
Sounds like a very fun day!

http://www.woodward-family.com/karenwoodward/blog.html
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• Dec. 8, 2007 - Oh my

Posted by SuperAngel
those are truly funny!! haha... Mom made one about a blogging homeschool mom.. wonder when she will post that.
hahaha...
As Always,
Amanda
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• Dec. 10, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Vicki
How fun!!! That is exactly what my girls would do!!! Minus the cat that is, because I don't allow my cats outside...*LOL*
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• Dec. 10, 2007 - wow

Posted by dukygurl
How fun it must be to be in your home...I am in NY any good advise on really cold snowy days?
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• Dec. 11, 2007 - Hi dukygurl

Posted by HSBCompanyBlog
We do get snow here, although not as much as you I'm sure. Still, you can set up a tent in the snow as well as you can in the rain. You could also make a snow fort or igloo.

Abiding in the Vine!
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• Dec. 12, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by dawilli
Wow! I better not read this post to my kids... it's kinda cold out for tenting...

Enjoy them,
ali
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• Dec. 13, 2007 - What a MOM!!!

Posted by peppermintpatti
You Rock, TIA!!! Isn't it fun what their little imaginations can come up with when left to their own to play in the rain!!!! Thanks for inspiring me... I think I'll let them leave up all the blankets they hung on the bottom bunk for their "fort" or "clubhouse" (depending on whether you ask my sons or my daughter) this afternoon instead of making them clean it up before bed!!! LOL
Patti
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• Dec. 17, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Leigh2
See, here is how they differ from my children. Mine would have done all of that...but at the end of the day they would have tried to sneak in and leave the tent and all of it's contents still outside to play with "later". Which really means that they hope I will clean it up. And why I didn't, and I made them bring everything in...it would take them three days.
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• Dec. 31, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Jocelyndixon
Hahaha how cute! I would really like to meet your family!

I wanted to wish you a HAPPY NEW and BLESSED YEARs! May it be filled with joyful times!

Blessings!
Jocelyn
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• Dec. 31, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by SandBetweenMyToes
This post made me laugh. I have 2 of those "dragger of all things possible" to the great outdoors~~tons and tons of stuffed animal friends, books, play food to feed said stuffed animal friends, blankets, and on and on. They spend as much time dragging as they do playing!
What a beautiful letter to your grandma. You are blessed to have those special memories. Thanks for sharing. To me, it was a great reminder of how I want to make a special effort to be all of those things and create special times and memories for my grandchildren one day.
Letitia
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• Jan. 3, 2008 - LOVE IT!!

Posted by hugabunchmom
You truly do have a gift for writing! The letter to your Grandma certainly proves that, such a skill for capturing thoughts and placing them on paper. This day in the rain, building a tent, is so like my children as well. What a wonderful thing to be able to allow them such creations....gotta love homeschooling opportunities!
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• Jan. 17, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous
that is so cool!! Makes me want it to rain for my kids!
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• Feb. 1, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by floridasunsets
You so need illustrations to go with this. This was great!
Betty
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