God's gifts from celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. day

"I have a dream that one day ... little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."
from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream"

My 1,000 gifts from the last week...
- The work done by Martin Luther King, Jr. and so many others, so pave a way for my children to grow up in a country where their skin color matters so much less than it once did

- Making a colored egg carton craft that Adrianna saw on PBS one day months ago 




- Adrianna's first school friend play date

- Playing "beans" with Abel, Adrianna, and Adrianna's friend from school
- Working with Adrianna to find a fun way to play with the sit 'n spin with colored pencils
 - Abel's letter train
- Abel playing with the ABC board all the way to and from our weekly errand run
- Adrianna and Abel helping me make allergy-free biscuits
 ... And Abel deciding the flour should be used like lotion
 - Trying our new chocolate sauce recipe with our homemade raspberry sorbet
- Yet another way to use the dump truck
- Saying goodbye to Grandma's goats, as they moved on to a new home
- Adrianna choosing music time at the library as her reward
... And spending an hour and a half there with the kids and Scott
... And marveling at the simple joy of a free gift in our community

- Homemade chicken nugget night... one of our family favorites


- Adrianna reading one of her mini books from school to Abel
- Those crazy dogs competing for cuddles with Grandpa
- Reading books from our library's winter reading bingo card
... And going to my teaching stash in the garage to find ones to fit the criteria
- Abel coming to me, wearing Adrianna's Aggie hat: "Mom, my Aggie hat!"

- And Grandpa finding another way to wear it, and cracking the kids up
- Adrianna making a portrait of her Webkinz puppy before church that really looked like the puppy
- Adrianna putting together an impromptu party for MLK day
... And Scott blowing up the balloons for it, including one that had three holes in it
 - "Momma, I'm Laura!"
- Abel putting away not only the kids' table, but also two chairs at the same time
- Spending the day playing at home
- Adrianna drawing her version of space
- Making an Octopus O to go with Abel's "lessons"

- Abel helping me clean up the beater
- A delicious allergy-free bread/bun recipe
- Scott and Adrianna going scanning through all the fun activities in the new Family Fun magazine
- Adrianna and Jenny making one of the Valentine ideas from the magazine
- Attending prayer time for our schools and children
... And Abel joining right in to pray after I finished

- Abel actually playing with the farm and train set while I was working in the kitchen
... And playing "farm" with him, while he piled all the animals and fence pieces into one pen
 - Adrianna's hamburger hair creation
... And that delightful brilliant sunset
- Family game night again... and Grandma and Grandpa joining us
- Rushing to get ready for school, and wondering where the kids went, and finding out that Adrianna was helping Abel get his shoes on

- Struggling to get the kids out of bed in the morning after Abel slept poorly, and Adrianna commenting about Abel: "He's grumpier than I am!"

- Conversation with Abel: "Wanna be a dump truck, Mom?" 
Me: "No.  Do you want to be a dump truck, Abel?"  
Abel:"No.  I wanna be Daddy."

Comments

AH said…
Gee whiz that's a lot of beans at Bean Time! :)
January 19, 2012 at 11:14 AM
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