Hay Day

I was outside with Big Man on this beautiful spring morning and as I walked through the freshly cut grass it occurred to me that we haven't had a "hay day" yet this year. Hay day is a special day created by Princess and is celebrated every time the grass gets cut. It consists of tossing handfuls of cut grass into the air and shouting "hay day!" We've celebrated hay day several times each of the past two summers. As I watch the kiddos get older I know they are gradually becoming more "sophisticated" and "mature" and eventually will be much too old to enjoy activities like hay day. So will this be the summer that hay day ends? Or will it continue to be celebrated in our house? The children still seem so young and yet I know that every day brings us closer to the day we take each of them to college. I'm just not ready to celebrate the last hay day yet. I pray it continues for at least one more summer.