- Teaching your kids how to make a paper airplane.
- Watching your child's face light up when he sucks on the end of a honeysuckle blossom.
- Making them the weird and wonderful concoction that is French toast.
- Discovering the joy of Christmas TV specials. Somehow, Charlie Brown & Co. never get old.
- Reading all the little "books" your kiddo makes.
- Having a good excuse to try Dilly bars again.
- Making chicken nuggets (GF, of course) for dinner.
- Being able to snack on Goldfish.
- The smell of baby lotion and kid shampoo.
- Reading through the Chronicles of Narnia, Charlotte's Web, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Hans Christian Andersen again.
- Coloring and talking with your kid.
- Playing with Playdoh.
- Rediscovering the joys of hot chocolate with swirly whipped cream on top.
- Introducing the kids to great, timeless kid-fare movies like Star Wars, Hook, and someday soon, National Treasure and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Watching a speckled slug leave a silver trail on a wheelbarrow.
- Fun with burr oak acorns and horse apples.
- Pressing leaves and flowers.
- Teaching your kids to make snickerdoodles and pancakes.
- Going to the zoo.
- Staying in a hotel (an wonderous adventure unto itself with children).
- Teaching your kids to chew gum (don't swallow it!)
- Fun songs you forgot about from your childhood--16 Tons of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts, The Yodeling Song, Mrs. O'Leary's Cow, Eeny Meeny Miney Mo, etc. I don't know if I got all those titles right...
- Finding the utter fun in listening to the Proclaimers' song "I would walk 500 miles".
- Discovering it is "crunchy outside" when it snows.
- Teaching your kids how to properly roll a snowball for a snowman.
- The joy of icicles.
- Snow ice cream.
- Walking with your kids on a Sunday afternoon.
- Listening to them sing Christian songs around the house.
- Finding the laughs in bathroom humor again.
I'm sure I'll think of more in the days ahead, and I'll try to write them down.
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