with a theme....
Yesterday was Animal Day. When I told the kids they got all
excited and nearly jumped up and down. And that was before I
even explained what that meant.
We started off with a farm fresh breakfast....
The idea was to explain to them the bacon came from a pig, the
eggs came from a chicken....but I forgot to mention any of that.
So moving right along....
The big excitement of the day was trying on animal
masks....preparing to all be an animal at dinner hours later.
I found some animal pictures I had had for years.
So they got to color those...even cousin Téa.
The masks were a big hit
wearing them on and off throughout the day.
Even their Dad got ready for the evening!
Farm fresh food for dinner....
corn on the cob, cantelope, turkey burgers.
Again, I forgot to explain why we chose those foods.
Oh, Grandma Honey.
We ended the Animal Day with little sister playing with the farm
animals we had hidden and found multiple times earlier in the day.
With her brothers getting ready for bed
she finally had the animals all to herself.
I also want to mention something else.
Years ago my sister Peggy told me about an adventure with kids that she went on
...actually it was decades ago.
I have thought of it many, many times, including this week. And I'll explain why.
She and her friend Gina, had a bunch of kids to take care of and entertain. Can't remember the details
of that but this was before Peggy and Gina were married and now they are both Grandmas so it was a
long time ago. She said they wanted to take these kids on a "picnic" but had no time to get ready for
that or buy the food, etc. So they just quickly made up some PB sandwiches and threw some other
little food items they had in a bag and off they all went for their "picnic." She came back and said the
kids were so excited and they all had the best time...with like 5 minutes prep time.
So often, before her story, I would think I didn't have the time or the energy or money
to do many adventures with my kids.
But since that story I realized that just
labeling an experience and working with what you have,
is all it really takes for a grand time.