I should be spring cleaning, I know I should. I’ve taken two days off work and my to do list is as long as my arm. I am keeping my friends children for two days while she has surgery. They are 3,6, and 10. They are worried about their mom, not really understanding what surgery means and what’s going to happen to her. I need to get things done but I also need to keep the kids entertained and their minds off their mom’s surgery.
So tomorrow we are planting a garden. Yard work is part of my spring cleaning so I’m going to get the kids involved. I bought child sized garden tools and gloves for them all and tomorrow while they are digging in the dirt we will be ridding the vegetable bed of weeds and getting the dirt turned over.
What kid doesn’t like to play in the dirt? The boys are excited and Ivy is excited to do whatever her brothers do.
There is always so much to do and usually we don’t involve the kids as much as we should because there is so much to do. They slow us down, they make a bigger mess, they don’t do a good job. We are doing our kids a disservice. They need to learn how to do these things, no matter how big of a mess they make.
Tomorrow will be a day to get things in the yard done but it will also be a time to find bugs and leaves and weeds. I’m excited to have all my little helpers. I didn’t realize what a chore it can be when your only choice is to do it all alone.
I hope the kids remember at least some of what we do tomorrow. I will tell them where to cut a rose branch, which branches to trim off the tree in the backyard and how to deadhead daffodils. Just like my grandfather taught me so many years ago.
If you don’t have little ones to help in the garden, borrow some. There is nothing cuter than a happy kid with dirt on his face.