Of fairies and flowers

Elsa has taken to dressing herself whenever we let her, and the other day she decided to "dress" Nora too - this was the best we could come up with to dress a baby fairy!



Fairy sisters

   I am ready for spring to arrive.  The daffodills are poking out, but the snow flurry we had yesterday was good reminder that it is still winter!  Even so, Elsa and I had fun threading up a garland of flowers to remind us that spring is on the way!


Paper flower garlands

 And two more random photos:



Nora enjoying one of her Valentine cards

 


Self portrait with new camera - you'll have to excuse the blurs until I learn what all the buttons do!

 

Glimpses through the looking glass, however dimly we may now see...

The time has come, I think, for me to start a blog, mostly because I have gotten to be so terrible about sending life updates to fiiends and family, and I am hoping that this new (to me) format will encourage me to do better. 

The blog title and quote comes from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," and it reminds me of how we find ourselves talking of anything and everything, material and invisible, with our children, and especially of Elsa's ever wandering imagination.  The season of little children is full of hard work and wonder.  We may now only see dimly through the looking glass, but the glimpses we are given help to see the abounding wonder that motivates our work.


June 2011, our first Little Wonder playing Alice in Wonderland's favorite game.  Photo by Abbie Morrison, http://www.abbiemorrison.com/

The time has come in our lives to be talking of many things, of fairies and of flowers, of crafts with paste and string, and when can she marry Christopher Robin, and whether cats can sing.