While you were sleeping

Gone are the lazy days of sleeping in, but the mornings now bring so much more. 

We started out talking with the toads and reading about their life cycle





We paused to renovate/relocate the former toad house into a toad tunnel

We fed the birds, watched their magic show, and enjoyed their music during breakfast

We provided the toads with an unintended iPhone nursery rhyme garden concert before heading off to the pool 

...and plotted our next creation--ALL before 8:00!  

Our morning song: 

Good morning dear earth

Good morning dear sun 

Good morning to the trees and the flowers everywhere 

Good morning dear beast 

and the birds in the trees

Good morning to YOU 

and good morning to me!

Squatters

If you create it...

nurture it...

sprinkle it...

give it hope...

use your talents...

Crafting her very own fairy doll, sans the hot glue part

Ella's fairy

...magic happens.

Toads and Fairies:

together in a place where reality meets fantasy.

If you look very closely, you can see the mouth and eye (beneath the chipped part of the pot) of one squatter, and the eyeball (top left of the upside-down pot) of the second squatter.  

We had one excited little girl who would have gladly skipped bedtime and continued tending to all the magic that was.

May this garden be a place of enchantment, mystery, and discovery...a place where fairies can frolic and feel at home...a place where toads can squat--temporarily.

Now, off to reality where my chores await me.