I am LOVING this sunshine - Can't get enough of summer !
The drawback is that I don't get a lot done ..... I guess that's cos I'm too happy to sit in the sun and read a book (only been off work 4 days and finished my first book on Tuesday LOL)
But there are lots of days with summer weather where the occasional shower can be very refreshing when it is as hot as this, or has been for sometime.
A few summers ago, probably about 10 years, we had a long(ish) stretch of very hot days - I remember the kids all enjoying the little blow-up swimming pool we had then ... and them playing with their super soaker's (water pistols) just to keep each other cool - this was one of their favourite summer pastimes!
So ..... on that basis and ....... figuring that they LOVE to get wet ..... I reckon that their labelling of me as a terrible mother, for a particular incident, was a trifle unfair ! .................
They were still quite young - about aged 9, 11 and 13 so they still had their bedtimes and I was fairly strict with this - even in the Summer Holidays - as I believed then (and still do) that children need their sleep on a good regular basis (of course if there were special events or parties, then they would stay up) but at that time they were probably going to bed from between 8pm - 9pm (staggered according to age) and if it was the Hols I would have probably added another half hour!
It was well after these allotted bedtimes - nearing midnight - when the shower started.
It was one of those lovely light refreshing showers - the smell of the fresh rain on the dried earth was intoxicating and as it was such a warm night - I just stood outside and soaked it up ....... and then .... I thought of the children ... and how they would LOVE this!
So I raced up the stairs and quickly but gently woke them all up - not giving them an explanation - just saying they needed to get up ... for an adventure !!
They were all in their PJ's and I rushed them downstairs and out into the conservatory....
Then I SHOVED them all outside and locked the door ......... giggling as I did this !!!
Perhaps I should have been done for child cruelty ......but after the initial shock (more about the fact that I had locked them out) they laughed .... and danced ... and drank up the atmosphere .... Dan took off his PJ's top and they even ran out onto the wet grass.
This only lasted a few minutes - maybe just 10 or 15 - but they still remember that night!
I have no idea what I did with them afterwards - did I send them straight back to bed? - did let them stay up a little longer? (after all it was my fault they were now wide awake) .... I don't know .... and it doesn't matter.
What matters is that THAT night they had lots of fun - in a different way ...... and I still giggle on a hot sunny day ... waiting for the shower !
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