It rained for 36 hours, but today after church the sky cleared. Spencer and Denver played Survivor Man outside all evening. They whittled spears, tried to build a fire, and pretended to hunt.
As darkness fell, I looked into the front yard and saw two of the muddiest children on Earth-- and they were sliding across my front yard! Grinning from ear to ear, they ran and slid into what quickly went from a mud puddle to a long, deep mud bog. They were grinning so much that even their teeth were muddy!
When it was too dark to see, John called them to the back porch. They stripped down for an outside shower-- John poured buckets of warm water over them. They loved it! After shower number one, they dried off and came in for shower number two and pajamas and snacks.
Who needs to spend money on a slip-n-slide when you can just use the muddy yard? Our family seems destined to be the subject of a Jeff Foxworthy joke: You might be a redneck!
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