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More Retroactive Blogging....princesses and ballerinas

How can she be four? She's fiercely independent, and completely bent on big-girlness. Who'd stand in the way of such sublime girly cuteness. Not I....Bridie's first week of princess ballerina camp.....

 

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Hi Ho Robin Hood

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Right before Holy Week, the two big girls finished up their production of Hi Ho Robin Hood.  They had a great deal of fun.  Sophie was Maid Marion and I am so proud of how hard she worked and how hard she worked to get what she wanted.

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Flower Fairy All Hallow's Eve

For the last year my children have been consumed by all things fairy-ish. We are all avid Cecily Mary Barker devotees at my house. So, when it came time to ask what sort of costumes everyone would be requiring, there would be no simple requests for generic fairies around here.  No, we needed :

Sophie- White Bryony Fairy
Jack- Hawthorn Fairy
Nora- Black Bryony Fairy 
Russell- Acorn Fairy
Bridie- Forget-Me-Not Fairy

We had a lot of fun pulling the costumes together with some help from Gram, making and decorating wings and arranging and crafting headpieces. I think they look sweet.

The baby eats aliens.

Really!

not every day

okay, so the other night I had the children IN their beds, lights out and everything...and, are you ready for this?  I went and got them all up ---for SNOW!  Snow in South Carolina is practically analagous with miracles and blue moons and such.  So...several hours later..many sets of soggy mittens, empty cocoa cups and a day after of sleep deprived crankiness later...ask me if it was worth it?  Go on....ask? 

Look at those smiles.  What do you think?

Nightime Recipe

Happy Thing for today....

My dd 5 has been basking in the doting attention of her two parents for the last few days and being the eldest child in the house while her older brother and sister are away.  This is quite a novel thing for her.  I was reminded about a little vignette in the book Ten Circles Upon a Pond where the author relates a story about a car ride with her I believe 5 year old daughter.  She notices that the child is plastered to the door and there is an acre of bench seat between them.  Mom makes inquiries and the daughter replies something along the lines of "I haven't ever been alone with you before."  I have to admit this made me a bit sad. 

DD has been absolutely SOAKING up the parental attention and I have been mindfully making myself be more patient with her many requests and need for my company even though I thought this little respite from "schooling" her older siblings would equal "Mommy-time" to organize and de-clutter and such.  As it turned out...trees falling on our house has sort of put the kaibash on those plans anyway.  Perhaps that tree had a greater purpose.

Tonight at bedtime, dd and I were reading our second chapter of Raggedy Ann and Andy in the Deep Deep Woods when I was treated to this:

      "Mom."
      "Yes dear."
     " I have a recipe."
     " For what, hon?"
     "For a happy day for me.  It has a book, a Bridie (four month old sister), and a momma."

Thank you Lord for this opportunity to stop and admire my Petunia. She is a lovely little girl.