I GET PAID TO PLAY!!!


two, four, six, eight... what do i appreciate?

i appreciate getting to go to WALDEN POND on a day like yesterday and spend all morning swimming with the fishies... eating turkey wraps and white cheddar cheezits... squirting innocent children in the face with a water gun and topping it all off with KIMBALL FARMS ice cream.

i appreciate going to the MUSEUM OF SCIENCE and learning about the human brain and how to make lighting.

i appreciate going on all sorts of adventures with the kids (i.e.- FENWAY PARK TOUR, GEORGE'S ISLAND, THE BEACH, SWIMMING AT THE county club) all expenses paid and goofing off in public like i'm 10. in the next few weeks i will also appreciate driving a nice 5 hours of good alone time up to God's most beautiful creation-- BAR HARBOR, MAINE.. to help out with the kids. there i will get to play at the beach, go on hiking adventures, explore local islands and eat pizza and ice cream and play MONOPOLY til i win all the kids' money!

i appreciate going to the theater and turning up my favorite music and dancing around the room with 20 children, scarves in hand and moving my body in ways no adult would dream of. i appreciate crawling around the room like a cheetah or making the sound of rain with a string of beads and then painting a large sheet to look like a beautiful countryside.

i appreciate the sound of a child at play... that unadulterated laughter and the imaginative sounds they make.

i appreciate answering questions to life's biggest mysteries.
"why doesn't a dolphin have fur?"
"why is a fire hydrant not called a hose?"

i appreciate watching a child learn something new, accomplish something hard and be able to laugh at his mistakes.

I GET PAID FOR THIS STUFF!

i realized my fortune when, yesterday, i was on the phone with mary and she asked how my day was and i told her that i was enjoying myself in the shade of a tree at walden pond and was just about to go for one last dip before the ice cream and she appropriately retorted... "i hate you." images of her sitting at her desk, behind her computer flashed across my mind and i realized... it may not be the most revered job in the world... but it sure is the most FUN!!!

sometimes.