When we think we're to busy.............

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Keith Willis

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I was out in my shop yesterday,when my 8 year old daughter came in and ask if i could come help her.I was working on a couple of knives,and due to health reasons,i don't get much shop time.I told her it would have to wait,so with a frown on her face,she said ''ok'',and sat on the steps.After about 15 min,of her watching me,i got to thinking,I know she will not be young forever,and these knives will just have to wait.I shut everything off,and closed the door.I ask her what she wanted and she said she needed a bucket of water to play with.I told her that she had a swimming pool full of water that she could play in.She said ''but it wont be the same''.I got her the bucket of water and went inside to get me a drink of water.I was in about 5 min,and went back out,well,she had gotten at the edge of my driveway,in a small hole and made a mud hole.Well I wanted to yell ''what do you think you are doing''.I did not say a word,i went in and got my camera,and the first few pic she never knew i was there.I set in a chair for a few min and she never knew i was there.Who would have thought,with a swimming pool,playing in the mud would have been so much fun.When it comes to our children,EVERYTHING ELSE CAN WAIT.Well,the pic tell the rest.
 
Two hours in the shop - $50
Ten minutes with your daughter - Priceless

Good call.
Stacy
 
You have saved your child from having a mud deficiency !!
There's an old song " Mud, mud , glorious mud, nothing quite like it for cooling the blood ,so follow me follow, down to the hollow and there let us wallow in glorious mud"
 
Too easy to forget what's really important sometimes.

Fun pictures, thanks.
SDS
 
That's the kind of thing we'll remember when we're old men. :) :thumbup:

When I'm not using power tools my 10-yr-old daughter sometimes hangs out in the shop. Give her a piece off pretty "scrap" wood and turn her lose with the files and sandpaper and she has a good old time while we chatter about whatever. Not as cute as the mud pics but still fun.
 
The biggest WOW thing to do for my 19 month old grandson is to get to go up the stairs to go into my knife shop. He is fascinated by the box of old scales I have taken off knives I put stone on. There are hundreds of them in the box and he easily spends a half hour going through them every time he gets to come into the shop.

I ususally keep it off limits as the stairs, rocks and knives are all pretty tempting and dangerous too so getting to actually be with paw-paw in the shop is a big deal for him...
 
Thanks, because I often find myself thinking that I am too busy for my 3 & 7 year old daughters. Nice reminder of what is truly important. And good to know that I am not the only one.
 
Thanks guys.Yea James,I hope I'll remember these days till I take my last breath.My wife works in the school system here in the county,and it really saddens me with some of the things that she tells of the number of children,some you can just tell others have told her, that their parents don't love them.

Red,sounds as though you may have a future stone artist,to take up where you leave off.
 
I hear you, HK. I have a couple close friends who work in the school system, and yikes... some of these kids have no direction at all. :(

When I look back on my childhood, it's the little things that matter most. I know that sounds like a cliche but it's true.
 
Life is little things, take care of them and the big stuff falls into line.

I've spent so much of my life in travelling for Uncle Sam, I've missed whole chapters in my children's lives. I hope and pray they know it was for their good and that I'm doing my best to make up in some small way for it now. An old Sergeant Major told me once that it's not about the quantity of time, it's about the quality of time with your loved ones and as I get older I realize what a wise man he truly was.
 
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