We had a great couple of days to celebrate St. Francis. With it falling on a Monday, we used the weekend to get started on some of our fun, splitting the time between finishing up some St. Therese things and starting on our St. Francis stuff. October sure starts off with a bang, doesn't it!
We started with some stories. It's fun and easy to just read excerpts from Tomie dePaola's Francis: the Poor Man of Assisi because each page is its own little story. I love the story of St. Francis and the wolf of Gubbio, so we had to read that one! And it was a great lead into our baking for the day. We made wolf paw cookies. I couldn't find the right kind of cookie, (I think they're called Almonetta?) so I grabbed Pepperidge Farm lemon cookies. They seemed to have the right shape. I don't know how all the flavors will work together, but sometimes, it's just more for the fun of baking together (even if we don't like our creation!). Besides, we can always count on Dad to do the eating!
They turned out really cute. So much so that I had the girls make extras so I could take some to my kindergarten kids on Monday, as we had a great day planned for the Feast of St. Francis at school too! The girls were glad to help out, as long as there was still some melted chocolate left over to lick off the spoon.
After lunch, when it had warmed up a bit (or at least it tried to warm up a bit), we went out back and painted a bird house for Brother and Sister Bird! We kept hoping Brother Sun would stay out, but the girls were pretty cold by the time they were done!
Getting started...
There's Brother Son, but unfortunately, the table was in the shade...so...
we finally moved the table to finish up!
Because it was so chilly, we waited until Sunday to finish up. St. Francis must have put a word in because Sunday was a beautiful day, so after Mass, we headed back outside to make bird seed cookies. It's our hope that all our efforts will lure the beautiful bluebirds that we see in the meadow into our backyard. We're really hoping they like our little house (although it's not really a bluebird house). We're hoping they won't know the difference!
When all was finished, it had been a fun weekend, filled with love of outdoors and all God's beauty, blessed by our gentle saint of Assisi!
Prayer of St. Francis
St. Francis of Assisi, Pray for Us!
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