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      I watch my children playing in the yard. I watch the weeds grow and realize the correlation between children and weeds. The simplest thing can become such a complex task for a child, and in the contrary a child can take the most complicated process that an adult would deal with and simplify it into something that works and works well. My argument for the preceeding is, child proof caps.

      Have you ever had a peanut butter and banana sandwich? I understand that they are very good! Personally, I have yet to try one.
      My middle son, the oldest of this batch, asked me, "What it is like to be a grown-up?" That struck a chord in me, when did I take the turn in life that made me a "grown-up". The funny thing about being a "grown-up" is that I have yet to call myself a "grown-up".
   & nbsp; My children amaze me everyday. My oldest called me and asked me to recite Pi to 100 places. I gasped and searched for the answer stumbling over my own memories...Okay, um...Pi...okay-3.1415926535897 9 and that was it. I had that knowledge at one time, and apparently life and the other "grown-up" decisions I have had to make took the remaining digits and threw them out the window. They became unimportant to me. The world is so "here-and-now" with instant gratification everywhere we look, that the simple things get tossed aside.
      I tried yesterday to sit and watch a butterfly float and land from flower to flower, and my cell phone rang. I HAD to take the call. My daughter continued to watch the insect for another hour and a half...Giggling.

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