Simply Summer

It dawned on me today that yet another summer is half over and I still haven't purchased the kids pool for the backyard that I thought I "really" needed.  We have a tiny green plastic turtle pool that Sophia, age two, plays in.  But it has been a couple of summers since we've had a pool that is fun for the older kids.  We used to have a blow up pool that could be filled to about a foot and a half deep, but it has long since bit the dust.  Since then, they've been playing in a huge galvanized metal tub, about 4 1/2 feet in diameter that we used when we raised a couple of cows.  It can be filled to about 2 to 2 1/2  feet deep.  I don't know that they've really even cared that we haven't purchased another pool.  They seem to have all kinds of fun in there and so do the other neighborhood kids.  It just goes to show that it doesn't take a lot of money and things to have fun. Sometimes, us grownups think they need more than they really do.   They put the sprinkler underneath the trampoline sometimes.  They run a hose down the slide and land in the kiddie pool.  They squirt each other with cheap little squirters from the dollar store, and they flood the sandbox and call it "Water Town."  That gets them absolutely filthy dirty, but we just spray them off really well before they hit the bathtub.  Kids' creativity really takes over when we let it.  They can find fun anywhere, anytime. Us grownups could learn a lesson or two from them!!!