Little Things

Little things can make me so happy. Like watching my kids become ecstatic over a little thing. That makes me happy. And trust me, when I say "little thing", I do mean little. Literally.

Saturday morning, we all got up, ate pancakes and then went fishing.

Jason and I baited the hooks while the kids cast the lines and reeled them in. They would get a tug or a nibble every now and then, and the worms would get eaten, but they just couldn't seem to hook any fish! So we baited more, then they would cast and reel in...nothing.

Then we decided to move to a new spot, a sort of spillway on the other side of the dam. They started catching fish immediately! Tiny little fish--but you would have thought they were catching the largest fish in the world! And because the fish were so small, the girls could reel them in all by themselves, which made it even more exciting for them!

Yes, they were little fish, but that didn't matter to us. Those little fish made them happy (as is clearly demonstrated in the following photo--check out Emily's face), and that made me happy! Sometimes it's just the little things, huh?