We headed off to our annual community/church service project on Saturday morning. We went to one of the local high schools to do yard work. As we got out of the car, the kids said, “I hate to work.” “It’s too cold outside.” On and on and on with the complaints.
We hauled the three girls from the car and checked in. The coordinator assigned us to remove ivy. (Apparently this is a type of ivy that is now outlawed in Oregon.) Russ and I started pulling the stuff out and eventually moved to shovels to attack the incredibly thick roots. And guess what? Madeleine and Elodie worked right along beside us. We’ve never seen them work so long. They spent about one-and-a-half hours uprooting ivy, clipping ivy, and pulling it off the walls. They were almost the only little kids there, but they did a fantastic job. No, we didn’t last the three hours we signed up for, but I was still impressed.
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