April 14, 2007: Fly a Kite

I know spring is here. I have been cleaning and purging around the house, attempting to find yet another new way to organize the girls' stuff and starting up a round of the "I will be healthy; I will eat more veggies; I will work out more" mantra. Spring is a wonderful time of renewal and we are on Easter break here from school and extracurriculars. My husband and I are hoping to build up some reserve energy to get us through the rest of the rather packed school year calendar.

Here at MoonRattles we have also completed our second kit and sent it off to the printers. We have learned much in the short time between the first two kits. Feedback from you has been wonderful and helpful. We hope you will enjoy and appreciate the changes we have made. We've moved our activity pages to the back of the activity guide to allow for easier use and copying. We are including a supplies packing list. And, perhaps most significantly, we are publishing our second illustrated children's book with a much higher grade art paper. We hope you enjoy the kit with your family as much as we have enjoyed creating it and testing it with ours.

On this Easter break from school, we've slowed down. Slept in to almost (gasp) 8 am. Let the kids where pajamas around the house all morning some days. Enjoyed walks at the crazy zigzag meander pace younger children prefer. One day, we went to the beach to fly kits. Unfortunately, the wind had died down and the kites wouldn't stay up, no matter how much we ran back and forth. The funny thing? I think we adults were sadder than the girls. They decided we could go on a shell hunt up the beach. I thought of the movie Mary Poppins. In the end of the movie, everyone is out flying kites. Their kites, of course, are all way up in the air, even though they are the simplest (and most impossible) type to fly. Our kites wouldn't fly. It didn't matter. We created memories, breathed, laughed, ran and forgot about the lists of things to do back home, the schedules, the work and the commitments. We were like our kids: finding joy in life and the fun of trying to fly a kite.

~Heatherly