Playing in the Mud

Will is fortunate to have a fun-loving aunt willing to do all those things that make a mother envious.  I remember being a kid and making mud pies in the back yard and loving every minute of it.  I wasn't the one who had to worry about the holes in the yard, the mud and cinder blocks on the patio (cinder blocks make a great oven for mud cookies - Kristen can tell you all about it) or the stains on my clothes.  Playing in the mud was just plain fun. 

And now, twenty years later, the mud still looks fun and I bet I could make some awesome mud cookies, except for my bad case of "grown-up brain."  Now mud looks like a whole day of chores - scrubbing dirty fingernails, soaking (or sacrificing) shorts and shirts, scouring shoes, and mopping up the tracks from the back door to the bathroom.

I'll never discount all the joys of motherhood but sometimes I miss the days when mud looked more like fun and less like work.  (In the fine print I should note that laziness on my part when it comes to cleaning definitely contributes to my new found aversion to mud!)

Kristen can always find the most fun things
to do with Will!  He loves it!

Come back Aunt Andy!!  I just want a hug!