Grateful, Day 16.

11/16/2011  I'm grateful for "silly-business". 

Some evenings at bedtime it is all "business" around here.  But there are those unplanned "silly-business" nights that creep into our lives and we LOVE them.  You probably know what I mean...It is the "witching-hour"...7-8ish...and all of the sudden:

One tickle gets the whole family in a wrestling match...
A pile of clean socks that have not been put away starts a "sock war" on either side of our bed...
A ball gets thrown once and then before we know it, we've been playing Keep-Away for an hour...
A pillow is thrown up again and again for "outfielder practice"...
Started by a quick check to see if someone's pajamas glow in the dark the flashlights come out and we are piled in one bed talking in the dark about all kinds of things...
One little girl hides under the bed and a hide-and-seek match starts...
One flip they learned in gymnastics turns into JB doing handstands by the wall and cartwheels in our room (He can do an amazing cartwheel, BTW)...
I am showing JB one You Tube video and we all get sucked into a You Tube marathon...
A laundry basket turns into a "car" or "train" and JB sees how far he can slide the kids across the kitchen...
We notice that Jay's whole outfit is "slick" and JB starts sliding him around the living room to see how far he'll go...
Someone turns on the music on our clock radio and an all out dance party begins!...
We realize that Checkers slide really well across the coffee table and a "mini-airhockey match" begins!...

Well, this week Jay was showing us that he was learning the Macarena in PE and so I pulled it up on You Tube so we could all teach Betsy...which turned into...me also pulling up the Cha Cha Slide, YMCA, Peanut Butter Jelly Time and a few other classics.  We danced HARD and laughed HARDER and it felt SO GOOD.  I'm reminded again and again that the best things in life are free...and "silly business" is one of them!