you know that feeling
when you fall down
on the trampoline
and keep trying to get up
but everyone keeps jumping
and you keep bouncing
and then all of you
start belly-laughing
and keep belly-laughing
and cannot stop?
—
“life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.”
-frank lowy
hung out with four of the six-pack tonight
after
pool time
trampoline jumping
walking
scooter-ing
fast food-ing
bike riding
creating with clay
home spa nail painting
singing
hide and seek
a TV movie
rounding up the cats
baths/showers
pajamas
stories
building a giant sleep nest
no one is at all tired yet
the perfect time to bake brownies
and eat them as a late night snack
with some ice cream on top
their parents will never know.
—
“if we’re not meant to have midnight snacks, why is there a light in the fridge?”
-author unknown (pinterest)
I spent some time this morning
creating the beginnings of a fairy village
in the front garden
of a friend’s little girl
who liked to come and visit my garden
when she got home
she discovered the surprise
saw the fairies had moved in
right in her very own front yard
and gave it her full endorsement
—
“the whole point of life was you couldn’t ever be sure what would happen next.
sometimes what happened was good, sometimes not,
but there were always surprises.”
― veronica henry, author
“ice cream — the great melter of all resolve.”
~dr.idel dreimer
kinder big and small sharing a friendship.
—
“you have been my friend. that in itself is a tremendous thing.”
-e.b. white – charlotte’s web
kinder take a closer look at the wooly sheep’s children
before they come over
to feel the human childrens’ gentle touch.
—
“any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own
and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.”
– john muir
kinders baking in the spring kitchen.
—
“the price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
-henry david thoreau
kinders get ready to enter a ‘new/old world.’
—
“so many worlds,
so much to do,
so little done,
such things to be.”
-alfred lord tennyson
the theory of loose parts and the right to be creative.
(kinders live this every day)
—
“in any environment,
both the degree of inventiveness and creativity,
and the
possibility of discovery,
are directly proportional
to the number
and kind of
variables in it.”
-theory credit: Simon Nicholson – The Theory of Loose Parts, 1971
a quote from the wonderful matilda wormwood
in honor of world book week.
—
credits: roald dahl – matilda, purple almond
I didn't have my glasses on.... 