Sophia on our way out of church: "I like church way better than school, school is too long. Church is WAY better! I used to pretend that my primary was my school, but now I go to both and I like church WAY better. It's just as wonderful as school but not as LOOOOONG."
Also, when we got home she had me go lay in my bed and put the covers over my head while she did something her teacher, "asked everyone in the class to do before next Sunday". When I came back I found little foam hearts on top of different little chores/clean ups she had done around the house. One of them was she had organized the toys in the toy chest, "See how nicely they are laying in there now, Mommy? SO FLAT, isn't it wonderful??"
And then we went on a walk around our neighborhood and the girls played in the piles of beautiful fall leaves that are decorating our streets right now. We gathered a whole bunch of all the different kinds and brought them home and Sophia taped them up all over our house as art. I would have taken a photo if my cell phone weren't lost. But this is what our neighborhood looks like right now.
And then for Sunday dinner I made chicken nuggets and fruit cups of red grapefruit (they had SECONDS) for the kids, and I ate a frozen dinner of saag paneer which was as perfect a dinner as I think I could have asked for. I am now motivated to find a way to buy these in bulk. AND, Sophia ate some with me, I was so shocked and she was just giggling and giggling at my sincerely (and maybe dramatic) disbelief after every bite she would take.
And now the kids are laughing like crazy while they jump on my bed and dress up in my clothes.
I read this the other day:
"We have art in order not to die of the truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche
In my world today it would be,
"We have art and children in order not to die of the truth."
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