Life IS a musical!

We watched the re-run of the Madonna episode of Glee recently...  After we stopped laughing... the next day, Mason (who obviously was NOT allowed to watch that show) started singing to me out of the blue.  I picked up on it and began to sing my conversations with him and the other kids, explaining to them (in song of course) that some people lived in song instead of speaking.  I reasoned that I could show them movies to prove it.

Well, they laughed for a while (like 2 minutes) and then they got annoyed.  After about 30 minutes (probably less, but that sounds better for the story) Mason was so annoyed that he yelled at me, "Will you please stop singing!  I don't know how to think like that!"  And so came the conclusion of Les Kanerables.

Happy Spring!

So we missed the whole Christmas card thing.  But here we are in Spring still thinking of all of you and thankful that you are our friends.  Happy Spring!

New Family Tradition

On Easter morning, during our family egg hunt, Mason noted that his basket was less full than his older brother's basket.  He was a little disappointed, but he is a kid who shakes things off quickly.  A few transfers from Merritt's basket to Mason's and all was well.  (Meanwhile, Molly was ecstatic about the whole experience and quite satisfied with finding her handful.)

When we got in the house and Mason began to open all of his plastic eggs, he came across one that was completely empty.  After the previous egg-hunt setback, this was quite discouraging for him.  I tried to be brilliant and rescue the situation by explaining that since Easter was really about Jesus' empty tomb, the empty egg was really the best egg of the day.  It was REAL Easter egg.

Well, that do too much to make Mason feel better at the moment, but ever since then, I have been thinking about that and about how to make the empty egg the best egg to find.

I think we'll make some kind of special party hat for the person who finds the empty egg, or let them eat off of the "special person of the day" plate at lunch, or something else special to help the message of the Easter "empty" stick...