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|| BUILD A ROCK COLLECTION || is one bucket list activity that we have been working on all\u00a0summer. I have been gone\u00a0to Market in Vegas for the last few days + while I was away, Jon\u00a0built\u00a0the kids a “golf ball wash”. I haven’t stopped hearing about it since I got home. I guess they rounded up all of the golf balls they could find, colored them with markers until I’m sure their hands were brighter than any of the balls, +\u00a0put them all through a “golf ball wash” that they built themselves. Cool dad award? I vote yes! Since then, they have continued to\u00a0put everything through their new wash bowl. A grape wash, block wash, bike wash, toothbrush wash, rock wash – – – etc. Jonah learned yesterday that a rock wash\u00a0doesn’t quite work the same\u00a0when you go\u00a0to wash off the paint.<\/p>\n

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But yesterday as I was being introduced to our newest rock members (that were collected while I was gone)\u00a0Jonah\u00a0timidly asked me, “Mom, can I\u00a0share my rocks\u00a0with my\u00a0friend?”\u00a0Keep in mind this is the rock stockpile that Riggins isn’t allowed to come within ten feet of.\u00a0When either of my kids\u00a0have a charitable thought, instead of letting myself interfere, I try really hard to let them run with it. It doesn’t matter that I spent the morning cleaning the kitchen, had just finished\u00a0scrubbing the marker off the living room cabinet or hid the markers + paints on top of the fridge out of sight out of reach, FOREVER!! \ud83d\ude09 Easier said than done. He noticed a\u00a0sliver of sadness in his friend on Sunday + believed\u00a0that sharing his rocks\u00a0would help him\u00a0feel better. J picked out a handful\u00a0his “smoothest” rocks\u00a0+ painted them\u00a0until they were just right. If you know Jonah, you also know how indecisive he is. This task was not taken lightly, but he did it! He also picked the plate to put them on. I’m so proud of him. He held them out in front of him so incredibly still as we drove to deliver them. The look on his face, his soft sentiment, the way he skipped back to the car afterwards, when\u00a0he told Riggins he loved him, how genuinely he asked me if I had a friend I should take\u00a0some\u00a0rocks to. Worth the mess? Worth the stress? Absolutely. He taught me a big lesson yesterday. He always teaches me lessons.<\/p>\n

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