These Precious Days

Noise and clatter: Webkins and Playstation. Time is spun with the Wheels of Fortune accompanied by water colored bulletin boards, sporting dragonflies and our happy face stick figure family -- sand drawings and playdough elves painted red and green. A mishmash of joy with a ring of hearts, scored and hung on the refrigerator, turns the wheel: We play. "I win! I win!" ..."Na-na-na-na boo-boo!" Miranda paints; Tessa pours the hourglass sand; Julia reads. Mark laughs. Sugar wags her puppydog tail and chases a merriment of balls. God is good.