Things To Do
We had our first rainy day in several weeks today. As such, our kids were a little on the bored side and needed some help from me on what they could do.
Some of my ideas were:
- Get out the paint sets
- Read a book
- Read a book to your younger sister/brother
- Do a puzzle
- Play with legos
- Sit outside and listen to the rain.
- Sit outside and listen to the sounds of the insects.
- Watch the dog try to scratch her ear, but not be quite able to reach just the right spot and then deal with the frustration of not being able to scratch her ear.
- Scratch the dog's ear when she comes over to you looking for relief from the agony.
- Listen to the sound of your hair growing slowly out of your head, marvelling at the machinery of the human body which produces and folds proteins to make hair in the first place.
- Consider the rain falling off the roof, pulled inexorably by gravity from the clouds down, down, down in the ground; flowing always down into the deep, where it will eventually gather with the other billions of drops into deep, dark wells to be drawn out again someday.
- Consider the twitching of the leaves on the trees, hanging on by the end of the summer sunlight but becoming more frail as the light wanes and the darkness returns, their strength tapped by a season of growth standing up to the start of the autumn wet season before falling and joining the stuff of the earth yet again, carbon returned to the ground.
They ended up jumping on the trampoline in the rain.
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