Monthly Archives: September 2011

mwahahahaha I am the master mind! actually it just kinda happened, but it was totally cool.

free child labour is easy to get, if you make it a game. The boy’s friend R came over to play after school with the bug podz he has been totally wrapped up in all day.

I asked if they could help me move the wood. My 6 year old son did not go ” awwwmooooom, my friend is over, I wanna play!” he exciteldy said ” Ok! R come on help me move this wood!”

At first they could only carry 2 peices each. But, they thought it was cool I was letting them throw wood. Typically that’s a no-no, at any other time. that comes with the “you could lose an eye!” They were going slow, and I was carrying more than they were, and then one said to the other…”I can carry 3” ..so then the other said  “I can carry 4!” then the other said “cool. look I can carry 5!”

Then they made it a competition and by the end of the 1/2 cord of wood, they were carrying 6 to 8 peices each.

I stopped carrying wood to stand back and watch this and I grabbed my phone to snap a pic. if you find a way to enjoy what you are doing, it is never work.

They got the good idea to move the pile from the driveway to the wood porch and started playing a game of who could score a point in each of the 1/2 cord cribs for the wood like basketball. rather then grab a bundle and throw it in each time.

they threw them in from 6 to 7 feet back and counted…with laughing and giggling and smiles the whole way.

Then my 10 year old daughter ran and grabbed crackers and cheese, and now they are resting at the table in the back yard and having a snack, and my first two wood cribs are 90 percent full