Ode to Little People----not you Jeff ;)

We have now been enjoying summer break for a month. We are now adjusted to the new schedule, I think. To quote me the first week into summer,"Joshua! You have hundreds of dollars of toys in that bedroom of yours and you insist that there is nothing for you to do???!!!" Joshua decided to rummage through the toys in his room (which is no small feat trying to dig out the toys we've had to carefully and strategically shove into every corner of the closets they call bedrooms in our condo). He came out with the Fisher-Price bin. The kids set up the toys and played for hours and hours. Now this was a huge moment for me because I have purposely kept every Little People toy because I firmly believed they would be the best toys my kids ever played with. I guess I believed this because everyone in my generation fondly remembers hours of play with their beloved airplane, bus, ferris wheel, or house. My kids played with theirs the first few days and then forgot all about them. This was painful because I was sure they would be obsessed with them like we all were. No such luck. At least I had two days of glory with more to come, hopefully. I guess I should eventually DI them with the other toys..........ah, who am I kidding? No force on earth could get me to dump them. I will stick to my guns even if only my grandkids find the magic hidden in "Little People".

Here's our kid's best modeling pose-sorry! They were very excited to get these matching animal PJs Jeff and I found on sale on one of our dates.