Busy Boys Make Better Boys

A Sabbath Story.

Monday afternoon, Megan came downstairs from an unusually long nap. [full disclosure dictates that I remind the reader that it is highly unusual behavior for Megan to take naps] So she wakes up from her nap and comes downstairs to find Eli and I having a pretty merry 'ol time. She looks out the kitchen window. "Jim," she asks, "did you clean the deck?" "Yeah, mom," Eli replies, "Dad cleaned the deck. I helped him." "Yeah," I said. Mumbling, I also mentioned how I did the dishes and picked up around the house. "Wow," says Megan, "you've been busy." To which I reply: "If you can't do what you want to do, at least do what you need to do."