Autumn brings out the craftiness in us.
It also brings out snowsuits and parkas... back to the front closet.
They are there.
The girls had them on the other day.
Today, it snowed, and the kids in school were pumped, but it melted before recess... Our days are, quite literally, numbered.
Actually, we are pretty crafty any time of year, but the autumn here is cold and grey, so crafting it up inside is always fun.
Now, the girls have a pretty good base on crafting, so now they usually come up with the ideas based on things we have in our craft drawers or that we find in our outing to the store (Walmart... we work with what we've got, and Walmart has great craft ideas!).
Sometimes I deliberately leave art supplies out for a specific art project, but these ideas are all the girls'!
On Sunday, Miss A had a mysterious high fever that mysteriously arrived Sunday morning and mysteriously disappeared before Monday morning.
A mystery.
She did find enough energy to come to the table for a short time to make this project.
After church on Sunday, Miss G and I went to the grocery store, and, among other items, we bought a bag of cranberries for the birds.
I agreed that we could make bird feeders out of them for the birds, since soon the snow would cover and freeze up most of the birds' food.
She likes to help the birds. Ravens. Ptarmigans. Little tweety birds...
So, I showed the girls how to string the cranberries with a long needle and some string, and they were focused for quite some time.
Miss G was excited to hand up the cranberry strings for the birds, and Miss A went back to resting on the couch in a feverish lump.
She was PUMPED to get to climb Daddy's ladder!
Together, she and Daddy chose spots where the birds could perch on one branch and nibble off the string hanging off the other branch.
With all the fall leaves gone, it makes the tree look a lot more glamourous.
These bird feeders have since been joined by two peanut butter pine cone and bird seed feeders, inspired and made by the girls, almost entirely without my help.
On Monday morning, they enlisted Papa to help them paint some wooden letters that Miss G picked up at Walmart, with initials of our family members.
They LOVE to paint.
I think Papa does, too.
The girls are pretty funny when you get them settled into an activity and they start talking.
For example...
Tonight, Miss G was drawing Halloween pictures and talking about how much fun she had on our school's Pirate Day, and would it be Pirate Day again soon?
I told her that the school would certainly have another special day like that, but that in Grade 1 it would have a new surprise theme, not pirates again.
She loved being in a mixed group with children of all different grade levels.
She was in a group with a teacher she called "Mrs. Dolphin" (a mispronunciation that is so cute), and she asked me if Miss A would be in Mrs. Dolphin's group this year.
I told her that there are always new groups, but that Miss A would not be in Mrs. Dolphin's group because Mrs. Dolphin retired.
Pause.
"What's retired?"
Daddy said that being retired is when you are all done working forever, and you get to stay home more to enjoy family and friends.
Miss G gasped, "OH!! I know what I want to do! I want to retire!! No more work!"
**Miss G actually loves school work and we are super proud of her reading and writing, but she does hear her teacher talk about "working" and this has caused some worry on her part, because she doesn't want to work... she wants to play and learn, and read and write and draw.... but not work....
So, retirement at age 6... why not??
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