Hat-tip: Oren from Ofra. It didn't quite snow at the Muqata this morning, but it did hail...covering our lawn in white. For about 5 minutes.
The younger kids danced around the house in glee and then grabbed plastic cups to go outside and collect some of the white stuff. The hail quickly turned back to rain, and the hail disappeared as quickly as it came.
My 5 year old daughter was so disappointed that she couldn't get any hail/snow into her cup, that the tears started rolling down her cheeks. I explained to her that it must be really disappointing not get something you want very badly, and she nodded with a sad look.
I told her that maybe if we did a hail-dance, it would hail again...or maybe we could even try a snow dance, since she knows we have a tried and true rain dance. Just the thought of it made her smile, and she got ready to go off to gan.
What the kids don't know is that its not really a rain dance, but a "get the kids to smile and laugh" dance.
And it works every time.
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Snow! Hail!
ReplyDeleteAll I got was sand and dirt clogging up my carburetor.
I only came here because you wrote snow. Now I see there's no snow.
ReplyDeleteBut it was a nice post so I'm glad I visited.
Andy: But there was snow in the picture! A little bit...ok...not mountains of wonderful white winter snow scenes, but if you look carefully on the ground there was some.
ReplyDeleteIn any event, thanks for visiting; hope you come by more often.
A snow dance. That sounds like fun, just make sure that you don't do it around any calves. ;)
ReplyDeleteA get the kids to smile and laugh dance? Ha -- that's when *I'm* the one doing the dancing...
ReplyDeleteOf course I'M the one doing the dancing :)
ReplyDeleteThey usually join in at some point.
So sweet. I enjoyed that.
ReplyDeleteAw! That's cute! I love snow...
ReplyDeleteTune in to their feelings-that's what kids want and need.If you aren't serious about the 'snow dance' it won't work.I pronounce you a talmid muvhak of Dr. Chaim Ginot.-and that's how we keep our sanity here in Israel.
ReplyDeleteDaat: So the reason there's hardly ever snow at the Muqata is because I'm not serious enough about the dance? I'll have to have LOTS more kavana next time...
ReplyDeleteAyelet and Irina; Thanks! It was cute when it happened here :)
I meant serious so YOUR daughter will believe it.
ReplyDeleteas long as you don't "hail Mary"
ReplyDeleteI think we need a visual of Jameel doing said rain dance....
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