Making Memories and Messes

So I was working on my project indoors and hubby was working on the backyard...he comes in the house and says, "Can you be ready in a hour or so and we will go cash the cans in." Now, I haven't paid attention, but I figured there were maybe 5-6 bags of cans. No...he had to take the seats out of our 8 passenger van and the back end was FULL! Where were these for the past five months? Apparently it proves that we rarely go to the side of the house where we store cans in the winter time. No, we do not drink that much soda! Alot of them are water bottles and then we have different relatives that give us their bottles and cans. It adds up...

So we figured that we were there at least 1.5 hours, but possible two. Cashing in cans is hard, nasty work. I don't know if you cash in cans, but in the winter time it is cold, miserable, dirty work. However....we made a decent amount of money in that short amount of time, I am happy to say! The kids worked hard. I didn't think ahead to how the noise in that echoing, loud room would affect Lil Mr's Sensory issues. He was having a hard time dealing with it, so the girls all took turns playing with him in the little area outside the building. The ones that weren't playing/watching Lil Mr all took turns getting cans/bottles from the van, loading the bins, taking caps off the bottles, cleaning up garbage and various other little tasks. They were troopers! I was so proud of them. Not a single one fussed till the last 15 minutes or so when they started getting hungry. It was hard work, but daddy is treating them to some of that hard earned money by picking up one of their favorite foods for lunch! Yay Daddy!

It was messy and we all have dirt shoved up under our fingernails and streaks of mud across our faces, but it was productive and we left thankful that we do not have to do that for a living as some people who were there. God is good and I am so thankful for Him in our lives!