Monday Compliments. Also a memory from my boys childhood.

"If you want your chidren to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others"                                                                             Haim Ginott


Well the last of the sap is boiling. The spiles and buckets are off the trees and cleaned. This ends another season but it also means for me that summer is around the corner. I love summer being able to spend more time outside. Having morning tea and reading on the deck is probably one of my favorite things. 
Summer was always a fun time with my boys also. We had a pool so spent lots of time with neighbours and friends in our back yard. The boys and I would often head down to my parents place in Dalesville Quebec for the day. It was close enough for a day trip. The boys could go swimming in the pond, go fishing with Papa, catch frogs...... Which brings me to a funny story..... One day we were at Mom and Dad's and Nick, who was about two at the time, was out in the yard with 'Papa' and Mom and I were in the living room with Ryan. Nick came in very excited as he had caught a frog and had it in a container of some kind. After looking at it I, of course, told him to go and show it to Ryan. Ryan looked in the container and in the flash of an eye, picked up the frog and (as is very common for 10-11 month olds) promptly put it in his mouth. Isn't that where everything goes. We were all a little shocked to say the least!!!!!! Mom was yelling and "AHHHH get it out, get it out." There had always been my intent!!!! but glad she told me. Anyway the little frogs feet were sticking out of Ryan's mouth so I pulled on them and just like a well oiled machine as I pulled the mouth opened simultaneously and out came the frog to return to the container. This all happened much quicker than it has taken me to write this or you to read it. I have always loved this story and liked to tell it, as I thought it was pretty cute. Ryan, on the other hand didn't like the story so much. When he was old enough talk and heard me telling the story he would stop me and often say it didn't happen!!!! When he was older though I guess he was able to see the humour in it and didn't mind it being told. 
Wanted to share that little memory with you. Hope it made you smile and giggle. Stay tuned for more stories of all sorts.