My Kids Quarters

 One of the reasons I love to create gifts for kids is that thinking outside the box is a requirement.  Actually, there isn’t even a box in sight when it comes to the way kids think and dream, and that’s strikes me as a very good thing.  Sitting on the sidewalk with my daughter, drawing with some very cool 3-D chalk was a simple way to pass a sunny afternoon.   Her enthusiam was heartwarming  and her focus on her drawings, absolute. She wasn’t afraid to get down and dirty on the sidewalk, colouring herself and everything in sight to express her creativity and then proudly showing off her work to anyone who walked by.   It was a gentle reminder to me that as adults we often try to multi-task our lives until we’re doing so many tasks, we can’t fully enjoy any of them, much less feel proud of our accomplishments.  Slowing down, enjoying the moment and keeping life simple - in other words, living like our children do, is perhaps one of the best gifts we can give ourselves and our chilren.