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Mon 21 Feb, 2005 07:13 pm
I live in Coastal Central California where since Dec. 1 (according to our weather guy) we have had 8 Inches more rain than Seattle Washington. This current storm is now on its 7th day and promises to hang out for at leats another day- day 1/2.
Today being Presidents Day the monkies had no school, so in order to be able to pull off our work days mom and I did the split-shift things with the kids. I don't know about anybody elses kids out there but mine are A-C-T-I-V-E little dudes and reguire a lot of space on a regular basis or it doesn't take long and things are not serine around modest/cozy home.
This morning the natives got restless enough that I had thoughts back to my football days and how glorious it felt to line up the ball and PUNT it through the uprights with every ounce of strengh I could muster! I think my anxt was mostly me feeling inadequatly equiped to keep them gainfully occupied. I did a pretty good job of keeping them busy but I felt bad that I don't have a mental arsenal of interesting activities for my five and six yearolds.
Anyone have any good activities for a surfdad to do with hios surfkids on these endless rainy days besides "hey guys do you want to take a bath?" AGAIN!?
Five and six, huh?
Puddles are too much fun.
I live in Oregon (where it hasn't rained in a while) but when it does we get out the galoshes and splash around the block.
If its warm enough there is nothing like the mud squishing through your toes and a mud-pie bakeoff and a mud sculpture and a mud whatever to fill the time.
Here, on a warmish day, rain makes for good worm hunting too!
And welcome to A2K surfdude!
boomerang wrote:Puddles are too much fun.!
This was my first thought too. Last summer Quinn and I were out running around on a day it was raining and as we were walking across a parking lot I ran ahead and jumped into a good sized puddle. After she recovered from being splashed she started laughing too. You're never to old to play in puddles!
If it's warm enough and it's not a thunder storm why not let the munchkins out to play in it?
You ARE never too old to play in a puddle.
And now I have a great mental image of you and Quinn having fun.
Mo was envied by all the kids and I was tut-tut-tutted by all the moms at the park the other day when we found a delicious slip and slide mud hole.
Okay, so the four block bike (Mo)/trot (Me) way home was a wee bit uncomfortable.....
We really had fun. Thats what counts.
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