A smile costs nothing, but gives much.
The girls love to paint, I'm just not a big fan of clean-up. But, I figured St. Rebecca's (St. Rafka) feast day was a good reason to celebrate.
We took advantage of Darren being home from work last week & caught a matinee of Arthur Christmas with the kiddos. Andrew had been to 2 movies at the theater before, but the girls had never gone before. We celebrated his feast day a little early with a fun night out. They did amazingly well! Teresa just sat on my lap the whole time & ate about half a tub of popcorn. Rebecca was particularly amused when at one point they dropped "magic dust" on animals of the Serengeti, so that zebras, elephants, & lions were floating everywhere. I just LOVE to hear her giggle like that! Maybe we'll make this a fun feast day tradition. :)
Our little Teresa is named after Blessed Mother Teresa, but since she chose her religious name from St. Therese of Liseux, we figured why not celebrate both?
We started off the day with fun at Jesse Kate's house for Friends Preschool. Teresa & I stayed to babysit Ellie... who peacefully slept upstairs most of the time. But we had fabulous fun!
Show & tell is always a fun part of the morning.
That night after supper we ventured over to the new Goodrich ice cream for a feast day treat. Teresa LOVES ice cream as much as the rest of us! It's funny to think how Andrew probably never even tasted anything like cake, ice cream, chocolate until his first birthday... not this one!
For our night prayers we enjoyed having a painting, a novena prayer card, & a cute statue of St. Therese (painted by her godmother, my talented sister Denise) on our table.
I think she should go into business. ;)
St. Therese, pray for us!
