Easter Photo Shoot

This is the first dresses I've ever made. Not exactly fancy Easter dresses but I was pleased just the same for my first attempts. The fabric was a bed sheet from the thrift store. I felt a little like Marie Von Trapp from the Sound of Music when she made outfits for the kids out of the curtains. Our Easter was a little hectic with afternoon church and then we had dinner with Fevzi and Gokcen. No ham this year (they are Muslims). We had chicken but other than that it was a pretty traditional Easter dinner. I hope all of you had a happy Easter!

Happy Palm Sunday

Today we celebrate Christ's triumphant ride into Jerusalem. Easter is my favorite holiday and Spring is my favorite season. Probably that has to do with growing up in Alaska when Spring is really the end to a very long, cold winter. It was always so great when the sun started staying up longer and you felt so much more energy. And the snow started to melt. Spring is also called Break-Up Season, everything is brown and muddy, but you can finally see the pavement on the roads again! I love Easter. I love the hope that Christ's resurrection gives us. I love my Savior. 

Poetry

We just finished studying A. A. Milne's poems this last term. We are moving on to a collection of children's poems by various authors after having read Robert Louis Stevenson's poems the first term. Adelle's favorite poem by Milne was Happiness.

John had

Great Big

Waterproof

Boots on;

John had a

Great Big 

Waterproof 

Hat;

John had a 

Great Big

Waterproof

Mackintosh-

And that

(Said John)

Is 

That.

I remember not liking  to study poetry in high school but Milne is my kind of poet, not too deep or confusing, mostly just silly.