For the Birds

 

This year, after taking down our Christmas decorations, we planted our Christmas tree in the yard. My husband and littlest munchkin swear it is going to sprout roots and grow happily.... I am pretty sure that short of a miracle, this will not happen.

However, I do believe that right now, in the winter, it is a good haven for the birds. So this weekend Littlest Munchkin and I went to work on making some birds treats to hang from the tree.

                                                     It was messy and we had a blast!
                                         

Afterward, we went outside to hang them up. For what ever reason, I had the urge to go barefoot. And I know it does not look it, but it was, a bizarre 70 degrees outside.

I told Littlest Munchkin to come out barefoot with me. In which she beamed with glory and ran out into the wet clay!

She then said "FINALLY!!!! You let me out barefoot instead of, "Where's your shoes??" I can finally run free!!!!"

This made me think to myself... who have I become??? She is right, we do say that, even in the summer..... Who am I???? When I was kid, I think I was always barefoot!

 

So we mushed our toes in the mud, and wiggled them in the grass (weeds)... which also was peculiar because as you see everything else is dormant... WHY are the weeds still green??????

 

I have vowed that starting in the spring.... we shall be barefoot once again!

 

 

 

To make the bird treats, we collected some pine cones, mushed/spread them with peanut butter and roll them in bird seed. the we tied them in twine.