My girls have been counting down the first day of Spring for, what feels like, for-e-ver now. Making craft after craft representative of all its bountiful green growth.
So yesterday we finally put up the new school bulletin. complete with their homemade flowers and apple tree...
Charis carefully worked on this picture for quite a while...
Putting great care into every flower and bird and adorable little bees.
And this one is of Jesus on the cross...
It says: "Of Jesus on the Cross. Jesus can take sins. God gave his onle son Jesus."
Charis said the orange thing in the corner is the Star of Bethlehem. And I happen to love the fact that Jesus has a smile on his face. ;) I think both are rather fitting.
So yesterday after their part of the bulletin board was finished, they set hard at work making a "Spring Craft."
Which I later found out was scads of confetti.
Soooo....At the breakfast table this morning, as I turned my back to help Raegan, I hear this booming "Happy Spring!" followed by handfuls of colorful confetti being thrown heavenward.
I must have gasped in surprise (not annoyance!) because they quickly said, "Okay, we'll clean it all up now.""No you will not! I love it! Let's leave it there all day!" *this is where we insert two of the biggest kidlet smiles ever*
After all, when two little girls spend as much time as they did handcrafting a bowl-full of confetti, you have to enjoy it for longer than 2.4 seconds, right?!!
See the detail?!I love how children find joy in e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.ng! Normally, I would have barely acknowledged the coming of Spring. Quite honestly, I may not have even remembered it's officially arrival.
After all, it doesn't mean anything in terms of a definitive weather forecast, right? And us adults are supposed to be all about the business of practical and reasonable and logical.
But not my girls. They will FIND a reason to celebrate life. They will create a occasion to party. And I love my life because of it.
Today we celebrate the coming of Spring. And I'm thinking tonight we may be pulling the bag of plastic Easter eggs out of the attic for a Spring Egg Hunt. ;)
