Hard Work

We have a mini-forest in the back yard that has been overtaken by wild blackberry bushes. The kids love to play back there but with the stickerbushes it has been off limits. Our great home teacher came over last week and used a field and brush mower and cleared out most of it. (We left a few blackberry bushes so we could enjoy some fresh blackberries). We decided that Saturday we would spend the day clearing out what was cut down by the mower and then spray the ground with some heavy duty round up to kill off the blackberry bush vines that we didn't want. It was pretty heavy work. When the girls were done with their inside chores we had them come out to help. Alexa came out first and started raking with me. After a while she said, "This is hard." Tim replied with, "Yeah, that's why it's called work." About 20 minutes later, Livie comes out to help. After a while Livie commented, "This is NOT fun." Before we could say anything, Alexa replied with, "It's not supposed to be fun, that's why it's called work." It just goes to show, that sometimes they do listen.