It's raining, It's pouring not

We have had several gloomy weeks in our part of the world. It has been HOT! The kind of hot that you can feel eating away at the cool air indoors, if the door is left open for 2 seconds. The kind of hot that is sticky and makes everything you do feel exhausting.

When it hasn't been HOT, it's been cloudy and HOT or cloudy and RAIN and HOT!! Usually not enough rain to remove the state of drought. Just enough rain to make the dirt muddy. So we've been indoors a bit more lately due to these awful conditions. Every time we've ventured out we've almost dehydrated due to the heat or had to go indoors due to the rain.

Wednesday was no different! It was a truly gloomy day! We tried to go outdoors and it began to rain after being outside for 5 minutes. At first I wasn't convinced that it was raining, it almost felt like raindrops were being blown off of the trees surrounding us. Then it was a little harder and then... a steady rain drizzle. The rain lasted for 10 seconds but doused us and doused the ground. Just enough to make a mess! haha

My kids were so thrilled to be outdoors that they could not contain themselves... they were running, squealing, dancing, spinning. I couldn't resist their freedom to play IN the rain.

The kids found a drip off of our roof (due to a clogged drain)and they became drinched from the drip and not the rain!

The laughter and the jumping into puddles that were smaller than their tiny feet! Oh the fun of being so young and innocent! I love the way they find fun in most anything we do! Today is a much cooler day, so maybe the sprinkles of rain did some good after all!