On one particularly cold, snowy, house-bound day, my kids discovered the laundry chute. They began dropping stuffed animals with homemade parachutes and crash helmets, but soon that was boring and they needed something more exciting--or more messy. It was Anna's idea to dump a whole bag of styrofoam peanuts down the chute. It was exciting for a few seconds, but the next hour of clean up wasn't so fun. Every kid has to learn how miserable it is to clean up a pile of styrofoam peanuts that they dumped. It was even harder to clean up in a crowded storage/furnace/laundry room. We might have a repeat from Michael or Sarah, but I think this lesson sunk in for Anna.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Cabin Fever
On one particularly cold, snowy, house-bound day, my kids discovered the laundry chute. They began dropping stuffed animals with homemade parachutes and crash helmets, but soon that was boring and they needed something more exciting--or more messy. It was Anna's idea to dump a whole bag of styrofoam peanuts down the chute. It was exciting for a few seconds, but the next hour of clean up wasn't so fun. Every kid has to learn how miserable it is to clean up a pile of styrofoam peanuts that they dumped. It was even harder to clean up in a crowded storage/furnace/laundry room. We might have a repeat from Michael or Sarah, but I think this lesson sunk in for Anna.
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A pox on whoever invented Styrofoam peanuts. We had them all over mixed in with Granpd Holdaway's coal storage. Are you really there living these adventures? It seems like so very long since we last saw you.
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