Growing up, I didn't have a pool, cable TV, video games, a computer, a cell phone or anything that automatically entertained me. My sister and I had to use our imagination to entertain ourselves. We would, of course, read books to escape from the reality of where we were. We would watch some TV, but that was usually limited to local stations and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of shows. We would take off and explore the land around our house and make up our own games and adventures. We learned about biology and other life sciences through this exploration. Our creativity was growing every second we were coming up with our own entertainment. We learned how to compromise because we only had each other to play with. Sometimes we got a kick out of something as simple as seeing who could jump across the wide part of the creek, other times we tried to make up a story about the people who originally lived in this area. Our imaginations were working hard. Today, I thought about heading to the brother-in-law's pool, but then I remembered that we had a plastic frog sandbox/pool thing in the yard. While my son napped, I went out and scrubbed it with water and bleach and started to fill it with water. I found some water friendly toys inside, and once my son woke up, we put on our swimsuits and "went to the pool". If we had been at my parents house, I might have found a clear pool of water in their creek to do this activity, but we made the best of our current situation and splashed and played for over an hour.
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