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May 12, 2008

Ordinary time

Today ends the Easter season and Ordinary Time begins, or continues really.  As the name implies, it is the parts of the liturgical year not part of the other seasons (Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter.) The priest wears green vestments for hope and growth during this season.

For our family, we are winding down our school year.  Seven weeks left, and with each week another curriculum will end until we are left with nothing but our literature.

Today, we actually did some art!  Nothing formal--it was sparked by our Come Look with Me: Enjoying at Art with Children book by Gladys Blizzard.  We were looking at Jonathan Eastman Johnson's The Old Stagecoach (1871)

She asks if you (the reader) could draw you and your friends playing on a vehicle.  At first, ds#2 was reluctant but cheerfully joined in with ds#1's enthusiasm.  They drew spaceships, solar systems, and constellations.  I even let them use the oil pastels and the Elmer's paint-in-the-brush, which moved on to glitter pom poms and glue.

Ds#1 surprisingly, instead of moving to paint and pom poms, decided to make his own newspaper.  After stapling some pages together and leaving others loose (just like the real paper) he wrote some articles, and even glued in one tiny pom pom.  He then put it in the mail box for dh to get with the mail when he got home.

It's not the Nobel Prize, or a scientific breakthrough, or a prominent position, or the next great novel, I know.  It's Ordinary Time.

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