Lesson(s) Learned

Hide and Seek is a game as old as human nature, starting with Adam and Eve. Down through the years, hide and seek has been a staple kids game - across generations, cultures, time, and place. Once CoVid hit, our family made an adaptation to the traditional hide and seek game, and now, my girls want to play it almost every chance they get. We call it Flashlight Tag. Basically, if hide and seek and tag got married and had little baby flashlights, that would be this game. It goes something like this: First, the setting: this game is played inside our house when it's dark outside and all the lights in the house are turned completely off. Now, for the ground rules: 1. One person is named "it" and begins to count to 10 (in English or Spanish) or count to 20 or count to 100 (if they're a feisty kindergartener and like to show off). Anyway, the person who is "it" counts while everyone else runs and hides. 2. At the end of counting, the "it" person turns on ...

March Writing Challenge - Prompt #1 "If March were a color, what color would it be? Write about how you know." First thoughts lead me to readily saying March is the color green.  Green, for Spring and all things that grow.  Green, for warm days (and rowdy kids that love to run outside, going to and fro). Green, like streetlights that give permission to go. Green, for holidays like St. Patrick's Day. Green, for Easter (if that calendar falls that way). Green, for constant friendships that are here to stay. Green, because (as my grandpa used to say),  "It's God's favorite color" and He likes it that way. But maybe, upon closer inspection, March isn't so bold, so lush, so green. Maybe March is more serene.  Maybe cool like the yellow of a daffodil.  Or light blue, like the sight of the sky from a windowsill. Or lavender, light pink, or seafoam, if you will. Maybe March is the color of standing still. Seeking God's face and inquiring of His will. May...