Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The Journey Begins...Ash Wednesday


"Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel,
Remember man, you are dust and to dust you shall return."

Today we made our salt dough crown of thorns. It turned out great this year. We placed it on our family altar. We will walk by it many times each day....so I hope this encourages US to "turn away from sin." Each good deed secretly pulling a thorn from Christ crown.

The finished product.
Now begins the fun pictures of the mess we made...Patrick had a blast squishing and mushing for about 20 minutes, then came the tossing of the dough across the kitchen. It was priceless. I did not have the video camera ready for this project.

In the beginning there was a clean little boy wearing a clean little shirt.
Can you find the clean little boy in the clean little shirt????
Patrick always wants to be in the middle of whatever the girls are doing!
See how he is doing whatever she does.

Don't you just want to squeeze this face???? OHHH so cute!

Oh yeah and this is just their hands. This gooey mess was all over the counter, floors, cabinets, stools, Patrick's hair. It was worth the clean up as we talked, laughed and listened to the rain coming down.
Oh yeah we can get real dirty!!!!
Do we have to get dirty!

The dough was perfect for molding after we worked with it awhile! Mary just liked squeezing it and pulling it to see how long she could make it before it broke.

May your journey be fruitful!

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