Remembering Your Messes: Win at the #Ickies

You see that picture? It's one of my favorite all-time photos of my two oldest boys when they were younger, and I have it displayed right above where I hang up the car keys. That way I see it at least twice a day--when I leave for work and when I come home. Every time I give it a good look it makes me chuckle.

There's something in their mud-splattered expressions that conveys both a contented joy and an earnest pride in the muck-filled hole they've dug into the yard. And there's a bit of wonde...