That title sounds rather like a weather forecast! This week's theme is rain, so get out your umbrellas and enjoy what the Porch Team has to share on the subject from their unique perspectives.
I'm not sure what happened to the sun I mentioned on Friday, but This weekend we've had rain, snow, more rain, and finally some sun. Sounds like Spring to me!
We have a new Porch Team member, Taneil Linschied is back, but this time doing the Craft Corner. Taneil used to write Knit Bits for us a couple of years ago. The craft she shows you is how to make a rain stick. Poor thing forgot we were now doing a theme and had a dandy craft all done up for you, when she remembered that she needed a craft for rain. Hmmm . . . So a quick rain stick post it is. (She's not happy with the result of it, so please give her some slack this week and trust me, she got all of her crafting genes from some one either than myself so her craft projects will be GREAT!)
Dianna Maxwell will be very much missed, she did some wonderful crafts for us. I'm so glad that she was able to write for the Porch as long as she did! Taneil has some tough shoes to fill.
What can I share with you about rain? It's wet. I don't like to be wet. Still, running through the rain drops with your children is fun, and builds memories that your children will remember forever.
Playing in the puddles after a rain storm is fun too! Just ask my boys. A few Springs ago, I found them playing happily in a big puddle. It was so deep they could sit in it like a bathtub. At first I was upset because it looked like they had stripped and jumped in. Turned out they had come back into the house, very quietly so I wouldn't know, and put on their swim trunks and went back outside to "swim" in that puddle. I have the cutest pictures of them with mud streaming in their eyes and in their hair. They didn't care, they were so happy and mama didn't get mad at them!
You and your children need to enjoy the rain, both outside and here on the Porch.
Tia Linschied
Senior Editor of HSB
