Puddle Jumpin'

So the torrential rains that we've gotten this week have been absolutely magical for me. In fact, I think that it would take a seriously long time before I could grow tired of them. However, I realize that this is probably due to the fact that I can stay indoors and enjoy the view without actually getting personally soaked. When I was younger I loved to play outside in the rain but now I consider myself more of an indoor rain person. Kelsey has been begging to go outside all week and was quite upset that I wouldn't let her in the backyard. Well, yesterday we went to the graduation of a friend of ours from beauty school and consequently were forced out into the elements. I bundled us all up and brought the umbrella and cautioned Jeremy against getting his shoes wet in the puddles. All of a sudden I wondered why I was preventing my children from getting wet. It's water. They weren't in their Sunday best on the way to some important function. Clothes and shoes will dry and a warm home awaited us just a few miles away. I told them to go ahead and we had a ball all the way across the campus back to our car. And I fell in love with the rain all over again.