The Simple Things

It started snowing yesterday and I said, "Kids! get your cute little bottoms up here and get on your coats and boots and get those rumps outside...it's time to play outside and throw some snow!"  And any idea with the words "throw" or "snow" in it, is pretty much a no-brainer for my boys.

Of course, they grabbed their shovels and went full boar!


There's just something about snowflakes falling on your baby.



Love: it's the ONLY language i want to learn to speak.



And then you watch a miracle happen.














And maybe we should all just slow the heck down and take a lesson from these little wonders. They get the little things in life. And watching them experience these little things that we so often take for granted....just makes life make sense again and again.

And after it's all over, and little boys are wringing wet and there might even still be a flake in their hair.... hearing them at the supper table thank God, for these simple little things...and for the fun they had....and the snow they ate when mom wasn't watching.....it makes a mom, a girl, sit back and think....man......these kids....these nearly still babies...they make it so simple. So perfectly simple.