Post #16

#122 days of digital mass

#122 days of #socialdistancing

Her mom dropped her off with paints, easel, and an empty canvas. She got working on her painting and finished it in no time. She loved making the dots and drew the mountains fresh from hiking a trail with her mom, dad and uncles. She described seeing waterfalls and lakes. Imagine at 5 yo, she can walk 6 miles?

At snack time, she relished the #takamla ube pandesal with cheese and bite by bite she said “yummy for my tummy.”

After breakfast, we started baking a banana blueberry mango chocolate chips loaf for her dad’s birthday.

She mashed the bananas and the butter, then broke open the eggshells, gingerly, careful not to have eggshells on the batter. She measured adeptly each cup of flour, sugar and after, remarked “Grandma, I will not forget this.”

That was my intention – to indelibly sear those loving moments with her.

Later, she kept singing and this morning, I was privileged to hear her singing and drumming with her grandpa. He found a new student to pass on his skills.

Shouldn’t that be our lives – creating joy for folks around us?