Bring it on!

So. I sit here in my cool and comfortable basement. Hidden away from the kids who are currently planted in front of the electronic babysitter learning life lessons from brightly coloured animals and Dora the explorer. Pondering what would be a good activity to do today keeping in mind that the temperature this week will not dip below 30 degrees. The list of activities and my thoughts on each are as follows:

Swimming (outdoors) = sunburns all round for everybody. Do they make sunscreen in a 90? Can everybody say "skin cancer!"

Swimming (indoor pool) = everybody sick after last visit to city pool. At this time of the year the "water" is primarily made up of Urine. I look forward to the yearly maintenance when they actually change it back from a urine bath to a pool.

Beach Park = sunburns, heat stroke, gnats, screaming children, whining about the heat, begging for another 2nd, 3rd and 4th ice cream from the snack bar, sticky children needing to use a public bathroom at the beach park. Sand in their bathing suits, ecoli in the water, imminent infection, round of antibiotics to follow, scraped knees, the obligatory accidental fall by somebody, tears. Yuck!

Biking/walking/running/playing = Heat stroke, sunburn, mom having to walk everybody's bike back because their legs are to hot and tired to go another step further.

Craft (indoors) = mess, fighting over materials which eventually leads to hitting fights, then punching, hair pulling, biting, stabbing, police, white chalk lines and jail for somebody. Appealing.

TV = me sitting in a cool and comfortable basement. Hidden away from the kids who are currently planted in front of the electronic babysitter learning life lessons from brightly coloured animals and Dora the explorer.

There are my choices for today. They've had very busy days since the end of school up 'till now.
Hmmmmm. Decisions, decisions. What to do, yes....what to do.

[Sigh] [guilt sets in] Ok, somebody pass the sunscreen, look out beach park here we come.

Thank you God for the gift of this beautiful day with my children. Many would change places with me in an instant, despite the difficulties that arise during the course of the day. AMEN!