How to unlock joy

We planted our backyard garden last week. Of course we don’t really have enough space. We don’t have beds devoted to this so we removed the swings from the swing set, threw down some fabric temporary beds and put up some temporary fencing. I grossly underestimated the amount of soil we’d need so we ended up needing more.
I planned a time for the boys and I to add the soil in the afternoon yesterday.
I put on some music, got all the gloves, put on my boots and called them over. They were engaged for about 10 minutes and then they started wandering off. I noticed that I was getting really bugged by that so, I called them back over several times, only to see them slowly wandering off again.
Didn’t they remember this whole garden thing what their idea?
I could feel myself getting more and more frustrated. Then I realized something. I was in …