Last week Grace had a throw down fit because I wouldn't go outside and rack the twelve leaves that had fallen so she could jump into them. Tonight we got home early enough that I let her go outside to play for a while. There were A LOT more leaves so I told her she could go get the little rake we use in in the chicken house and rake some leaves up to jump in while I worked inside.
She worked hard raking little leaf piles up and had a great time jumping and rolling in them.
The excitement on her face is priceless! The greatest memories I have as a child in the fall are raking leaves into HUGE piles (and it took forever as western Nebraska doesn't have many trees!) and absolutely jumping in them until there weren't any left.
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