Tuesday, February 16, 2010

19 hour Winter Wonderland


As anticipation built up, the long awaited event finally occurred. It snowed in our southern carolina beach town and the snow stuck! Some children got to stay up late as the snow started coming down and got to play outside in PJs and coats. Our little ones went to bed early as we chose to wake them before sunrise the next morning. After rushing through breakfast, we did some serious bundling up and then took a walk exploring our white blanket world. We enjoyed every possible moment of this beautiful gift from Mother Nature making sure we had snow tasting, made snow angels, had snow ball fights and built snow persons. After all, we knew it would not last long. And in deed it lasted nineteen hours at best.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Daddy, make something that goes...!


Those were the words our son used as he looked longingly at the stocks of rough wood.

What is a father to do but oblige?
So with wheels that were stashed in a long forgotten box and the wood that was left over from a project completed, a toy truck was crafted with love and with care.

The sounds and the stories that followed that day bring a smile to mind and a song to my heart. Oh, the creativity of imagination filled play.