My Grandchildren - Always "Working"
I don't believe I've ever seen a bunch of kids whose "play" is almost always centered around "work". The boys, Jacob, Brandon and Zachary are constantly "working" with their play tool sets, building a house out of a box and using the flaps we'd cut off other boxes as boards to fill in the top for a roof, or building gates, fences, etc out of blocks.
We have a supply of roasted peanuts that we are shelling to make honey roasted peanuts, and Jacob LOVES to "crack" the peanuts. When he's at our house we have a box set up on a little table for him with his own bowl for the peanuts, bowl for the shells and zip lock bags to put them in when the bowls get full. It never fails, if he's here on a Friday night and the peanuts are set up, he'll wake up Saturday morning, half stumbling half asleep into the living room, and when we ask him if he'd like to lie on the couch for a few minutes he always says "no, I have to do my peanuts"! Now THIS is the kind of worker anybody would be proud of!!
A few days ago when the quads were here we had a new "job" little Zachary came up with. Early in the morning he gathered some sheets of paper that I'd printed extra coupons on - wanted to make them into a "book of coupons" for Mommy, so we put a spiral binder on the pages. He then got a length of string that they all like to play with and had me tie one end to the binder so he could pull it around. Later when they got to go outside to play, he took a hand cart and filled it with small branches where Papaw had been trimming a bush. He informed me he was the "garbage pick up man", to which I let him know what a good job he was doing. Later I saw him tying the hand cart filled with branches to his bicycle WITH the string from the coupon book he'd made. He did a great job of tying it all together and spent the rest of the day pulling around the cart with his bicycle so he could find more garbage to pick up. Check out this picture - doesn't he look like a great "workin' man" -- that's what they always say they are..... a workin man!
Boy howdy! I hope they keep this work ethic when they grow up --- we'll certainly have aome "workin men" in this family!
We have a supply of roasted peanuts that we are shelling to make honey roasted peanuts, and Jacob LOVES to "crack" the peanuts. When he's at our house we have a box set up on a little table for him with his own bowl for the peanuts, bowl for the shells and zip lock bags to put them in when the bowls get full. It never fails, if he's here on a Friday night and the peanuts are set up, he'll wake up Saturday morning, half stumbling half asleep into the living room, and when we ask him if he'd like to lie on the couch for a few minutes he always says "no, I have to do my peanuts"! Now THIS is the kind of worker anybody would be proud of!!
A few days ago when the quads were here we had a new "job" little Zachary came up with. Early in the morning he gathered some sheets of paper that I'd printed extra coupons on - wanted to make them into a "book of coupons" for Mommy, so we put a spiral binder on the pages. He then got a length of string that they all like to play with and had me tie one end to the binder so he could pull it around. Later when they got to go outside to play, he took a hand cart and filled it with small branches where Papaw had been trimming a bush. He informed me he was the "garbage pick up man", to which I let him know what a good job he was doing. Later I saw him tying the hand cart filled with branches to his bicycle WITH the string from the coupon book he'd made. He did a great job of tying it all together and spent the rest of the day pulling around the cart with his bicycle so he could find more garbage to pick up. Check out this picture - doesn't he look like a great "workin' man" -- that's what they always say they are..... a workin man!
Boy howdy! I hope they keep this work ethic when they grow up --- we'll certainly have aome "workin men" in this family!
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