April Showers
bring May flowers,
Spring Breaks,
and the end-of-the-school-year-chase.
International Day.
Grandparent’s Day.
3-D extra-credit projects.
Soccer games.
Circulatory System Brochures.
Curtain Please!
Plays, plays and more plays!
Dances.
Field Trips.
Wax Museums.
Soccer games.
Character Lunch.
Junior Proms.
Teacher Appreciation Week.
Book Reports.
Science Projects.
More soccer games.
Spring Fling.
May’s forecasts even more densely packed calendar items…
(And, yes, we are still expected to grocery shop and do the laundry. Gotta keep those soccer uniforms clean.)
Time to grab your track shoes,
take your vitamins,
maintain a sense of humor,
safeguard the kids’ rest,
(They get so mean when they are sleep deprived…)
and hug each other.
Often.
It’s too easy to forget the reason we run this obstacle course in the first place is for the kids.
Our kids are hardworking and talented.
They are eager and beautiful.
The next couple months can be a festival of stress, or a time to soak in their childhoods and invest in family relationships.
God grant me the wisdom to celebrate this time of year and dance with my children in a festival of Thanksgiving.
Well Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you to her kitchen chair
And she broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah!