Even though it is only February, it sure feels like springtime this week. It might be the Dutch in me, or the fact that we heat with wood and there is a thin layer of soot over everything in the living room, but I've got the spring-cleaning bug.
The doll house has been gathering soot all winter. Time to give it a good cleaning!
It looks like the last girls to play with the dollhouse put themselves to bed. The dollhouse was built 36 years ago for a four year old. Furniture and household necessities were built and bought and received as gifts over the next 25 years. Fabric and wire replicas of our family were made to scale. By the time the granddaughters came along, they felt they needed replicas of themselves. Why not? Of course, they wanted them yesterday, so paper replicas were created.
I am so happy that even the dolls feel comfortable sleeping in our home. Even if it is under a floor mat.
Not only were two little girls in bed, it seems that the dog was tucked in for the night too. Insight into the little girls' characters. Making sure the pets are comfortable.
You have to wonder about this little girl. Did she not want to go to bed? Was she not playing with the dollhouse last time the grandkids came here?
The kitchen is now tidy. Pieces of slate gathered from a beach in Nova Scotia are ready to be grouted in place on the floor of the potting room. The girls are old enough to help laying the floor. Maybe that will happen this summer.
For now, Grandma is resting comfortably on the window seat and Grandpa is practising riding his tricycle.
Aaaaaaand ........ it's snowing. That was a lovely spring.
Play is the foundation of learning,
creativity,
self-expression,
and constructive problem-solving.
It’s how children wrestle with life to make it meaningful. ”
Susan Linn
Contemporary American psychiatrist
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