This is our now TREELESS front yard. And no, Mac didn't take it too well. Gave her a choice though - to be sad about it for the next month, have temper tantrums, sulk, cry and make everyone's life miserable OR show and talk about her sadness for one night (which is now over) and come and help me choose a homework desk and chair to put in her room......she chose the desk/chair option. She well and truly got the most value out of her ONE night of grief, but hopefully that is all behind us now. Adan took her out the back and showed her where the new shed and new paved driveway will go, and asked her to come up with some ideas for planning a really great KIDs Adventure Playground in the backyard. I did hear the words TREEHOUSE, ladder, ropes, flying fox, monkey bars, slides being bandied about....Might have to use some of that money that is apparently waiting for me to claim it in about 5 different countries in the world, based on the emails I keep receiving. I think at last count I was up to $9, 787,542 in uncollected funds, and yes, one of them was in Nigeria.
We have friends that have just put in an extravaganza forte cum cubby with everything that opens and shus and they say it has made the world of difference...but I suspect there is equal value in the clothes-line cubby your kids create from scratch.
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