Unforgettable Childhood

Hi Everyone! I am posting over at a new blog called the girl creative. This fabulous blog was created by my friend Diana. It has great craft ideas.

I posted a new activity that we are doing to countdown to Thanksgiving called “The Blessing Tree”. Enjoy!

We survived the week of play practices and two performances. The play was really cute. This last week really made me realize the importance of arts in my kids childhood. I have some exciting plans in the works. I can’t wait to share with you. Here is a couple pictures of girls in costume.

Madelyn – The Beautiful Day

Taylor – The Flute

Well, it has been one crazy week at our house. Both of my older girls tried out for a play on Monday and they both got parts. They were both very excited. It has meant school all day, then play practice until bedtime. They only had Monday through Thursday to prepare and then tonight and tomorrow night they have performances.

I was really nervous that only one of them would get a part and then I would have to deal with hurt feelings, but that didn’t happen so I sighed a breath of relief.

My oldest daughter lacks no confidence (that can be a good and bad thing) so she didn’t doubt that she would get a part. In fact she is on stage most of the play.

My youngest is the complete opposite. I could see on her face during the entire audition process that she was nervous that she would not get a part. However, when they asked her to say a line, she was loud and clear. I was pleasantly surprised and impressed.

I realized right away that my younger daughter had a pretty small part, mostly because she is one of the smallest little actors they have on stage. I was a little worried about how she would respond when she found out that she had a small part. I should not have worried, she is a kid that finds the positive in every situation.

After her first practice she came in and said, “I am the only Beautiful Day (that is her character) that has two lines! And I have a very important part because I am the first Beautiful Day on stage and I talk first.” She then told us every other Beautiful Days’ lines. I figured by today she would be directing the Beautiful Days.

I can’t wait to share photos tomorrow from the play. I am so thankful for this little bit of Art that is being brought into our little town. There is not much opportunity for the Arts in our community. A thanks to The Black Hills Playhouse for there hard work with all the kids.

That leads me to my first Unforgettable Childhood Project. I am in the formulation stage, and I can’t wait to tell you all about it. As I have been brainstorming about this site I have started to realize that it is about more than my 3 girls and creating memories that last a lifetime. It is about all children, especially those that I touch. How can I create memories with them that will last a lifetime? I guess you will have to come back to my site later to hear all about my vision.

Usually I am the one in the middle of all the crazy creative messes with the family, but for this activity I stood in the shadows with my camera in hand. . .

Aunt Darla & Uncle Doug hosted a Pumpkin Carving Day at Grandma and Grandpa’s House for all of the cousins. We let the little ones start off the fun. Nadia decided that she wanted Daddy to carve her pumpkin so the above pumpkin is their masterpiece.

Nadia wasn’t so sure that she wanted to stick her hand into the pumpkin so Daddy did most of the work.

Madelyn dug right in and got dirty. She did make a few comments about how “disgusting” it was, but she did the work all by herself.

Taylor started her pumpkin and then got bored so she went to play. Later she came back to finish it, because she said, “I don’t want to be the only one without a carved pumpkin.

So what do you think?

I am reading an amazing book right now by Ann Kroeker called Not So Fast – Slow Down Solutions for Frenzied Families.

This book has inspired me to slow down with my kids. So Sunday afternoon we had an afternoon art adventure. My oldest was at the river with some friends so the younger two and I gathered up our paint, markers, crayons and colored pencils and we had so much fun.

First we laid out a tablecloth on the front porch and we painted. They thought it would be fun to splatter paint. They filled their brushes with paint and hit the handle to make speckles all over their papers.

After our painting fun we loaded our picnic blanket, sketch books and drawing supplies into the stroller. Madi jumped on her bike and Nadia climbed into the stroller and we were off. We walked to City park and created.

Not long after we were there we had a little visitor. This little bird really wanted to get onto our blanket.

Nadia said, “He wants to be my friend.”

This week Mcklinky’s Blog Hop is favorite photo(s). The girls and I are working on a little project called “The ABC’s of our Hometown”. We have been brainstorming all of our favorite places in town and trying to find something that represents every letter of the alphabet. We are still working on a few letters and then we need to figure out exactly how we want to put it all together. The pictures I am sharing represent the letter “C”. After you check out these pictures, go to Simple Kids to check out my first children’s book review! It should be up sometime on Tuesday.

“C” is for City Park

What do you do on a rainy Saturday?

Find every pillow and blanket in the house to make a pile and play SuperWoman, of course.

Or make signs for your rooms to try to keep your sisters out of your room.

Oh and there is always hula-hooping in the house.

It might be a really long day. . .