And then it hit us-it wasn't a bad batch of ice cream cones, or an overcrowded freezer-our freezer of 6 years was dying. It didn't have the long life we had hoped for when we bought it and it was time to replace it.
Once we got the new bigger freezer, we had a HUGE cardboard box sitting in the garage to put out in the recycling.
With our kids we had a feeling that the box wouldn't sit idle for long, and we were right. They asked if they could have it. After getting the go ahead from us, they got to work deciding what to make out of it.
The 1st thing they thought of was making it into a CARDBOARD HOUSE. They talked about how they would make it and went out to work on it.
Before it could get made into a house it got smashed down and drug across the street to Joe's house by Corrine & Joe to be used as a a SLIDE.
With 3 kids sliding down it, it got too short, so it got cut it open and made it an even LONGER SLIDE. Corrine, Joe & Rebecca slid down the slide over and over giggling.
A few days later Simeon & Joe decided to use it for TARGET PRACTICE with their sticks and it got full of holes.
Corrine wasn't very happy that her slide was now full of holes and fast anymore.
The kids started thinking what they could do with it.. They got duct tape out and taped it back together and made it into a TUBE to roll down the hill in
They tried having 5 kids in it, but they found out quickly that there were too many arms, legs, hands, feet and heads rolling close together. They decided that 4 or less kids was a better amount of body parts rolling over and on each other!They'd crawling in it back up the hill to take another tumble down. It started to look like a giant tread on a tank.
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After a week of fun with the box it got recycled and sent onto bigger and better things. Who knows it may end up back in our lives again in a different form!
Funny thing-the box never made it into the original plan for it-a cardboard house.
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