Raking Leaves

Our house has two very big Norway Maple Trees on the front yard, so during the Fall we have an abundance of leaves. This means the job of raking is a big one. I tried to get the kids help out with the clean up this year, which didn't go very well. Rebecca got bored after about 2 minutes and went inside to play with her Barbie dolls, and Joshua kept jumping in my leaf piles and scattering the leaves everywhere, negating all of my hard work.

After a while, I just accepted the fact that the kids are not yet ready to actually help with the task and decided to enjoy the moment and worry about getting all the leaves off the lawn another time. Life's too short to not enjoy these moments with the kids. Joshua was truly having the time of his life jumping in the leaf piles and throwing leaves in the air. Just like throwing stones at the beach, playing in the leaves is one of life's simple pleasures that should not be wasted on us dads.