In the hubbub of working for a living and cleaning the house so we can stand living in it, we need to set aside time for PLAY Children were created for play. And that's just the girls. Parents, encumbered with the numerous burdens of adulthood, can hardly remember what having fun is all about. It's hard for them to cut loose in utter informality. The children totally cracked up.
Adult burdens are incomprehensible to children.
But often at a moment like that we'll decide to stop and play. We chase the kids wildly around the house until we catch them and fling them on the bed, and tickle them unmercifully. Sometimes we try excursions off the beaten path. One night we turned off all of the lights during dinner and lit candles. Then they ran and got plastic dinosaurs which made very impressive and threatening shadows.