Spring lambs, a delightful poem, a dental x-ray
Good evening from Auckland, NZ, where Spring is in the air. Recently we visited Cornwall Park and it was so calming being amongst nature and beauty and little baby lambs. A real balm for the soul. I wanted to share this photo with you:
We are preparing to homeschool our eldest and so I have been on the lookout for good books.
Requested A Child’s Garden of Verses at the library and some of the pages transported me back in time to the magic tingling I used to feel inside me when I read as a child. My 4 and 3 year old children enjoyed various verses from the book too, which was a bonus.
Reading books aloud so frequently to my children adds another dimension to my experience as a reader. I am anchored in the present with no time to wander, and I enjoy being able to be a vessel for them to experience a story and watching their imagination and minds take flight.
My baby loves pulling books off the bookshelves for now and licking pages and in due course I look forward to her own reading journey beginning too.
My Shadow
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
My son had to have a dental x-ray done following a fall.
Can you see the adult teeth waiting in the wings? I thought it was just amazing to see. It reminds me of pregnancy ultrasounds and also of the day I found out that baby girls hold within them all the eggs they’ll ever have. The human body and its intricacies and abilities are so easily taken for granted—and this week with various incidents within our family and also from tuning in to others’ testimonies at church I have been reminded that we are blessed to not only be fearfully and wonderfully made, but continually loved and held by our loving Creator, through wellness and sickness, all the days of our lives.
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
- Psalm 139:13-16 NIV
I hope the coming week brings refreshment to your spirit and laughter to your lips.
Mel
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