A Lesson about Love and Forgiveness

The other day I was doing laundry and McKenzie comes to tell me that there is several neighbor kids running through our lawn while the sprinklers are running. I opened the door and asked them to leave. I get absolutely no response. They don't even acknowledge me. So I asked nicely again. And again. And Again. After several times of nicely asking them to stay off the lawn and out of the sprinklers I got out to them and firmly tell them to leave. I finally get them all to go, but as soon as I get back into the house, they are back out in the sprinklers and running through my lawn. I go back outside and tell them that they will not be allowed back to play if they did not leave. Shortly thereafter the sprinklers turned off.

I was furious because these kids are fairly young and there parents are nowhere to be seen. 1 Mom was gone. The other was in her house watching this all take place and the other parents were inside totally unaware of what their children were doing. Not only all this, but we had just laid grass seed and fertilizer down to the dead spots in the lawn.

Then, we get a knock at the door and the same kids are there and they ask me if they could borrow our kiddie pool. I lost it at that point. I said that if they wouldn't listen to me or respect my things then they would not be allowed to use my stuff. I yelled pretty good. Telling them that they need to be respectful and one of the kids yelled back, "we're sorry!" I felt really good at this point, because I felt that they could all use a goo lesson.

Well, the next thing I know, all the kids come back and they have roses for me. They said that they just wanted to be nice. Boy did I feel like a complete jerk. They are just kids ad they wanted to have a little fun. I learned a wonderful lesson from the neighbor kids that day. They were so quick to do something nice when I was awful to them.


Here are the pretty flowers that they gave me.