mother nature

Last weekend, we went to see my in-laws' new home and in the neighborhood, I saw a kid jumping happily in his father's pickup truck. I guess they were transporting stuff into their new house too. It reminded me of the good old days where my siblings and i sat in the truck bed when father was driving to send goods to his customers. The weather was always breezy- the truck was moving and we played at the back. Xuan and cheng wouldn't have the chances to get on the truck ride. Neither would they have the chances to go into villages. Raising kids has never been easy, I tell myself to go back to mother nature and let them explore and adventure on their own. But the thought of them playing sands and I have to clean the aftermath just scares me off. Xuan has been playing with the rice at the kitchen and it's tiresome to scoop up and put it back to the rice bag. I call xuan the mickey mouse in my house. Few months later, I would expect cheng to join him too...