A Need To Create

 Creativity is in the eye of the beholder.  To some, it comes naturally.  After completion of the first day of school and  a special supper  the kids had a little down time before showers and bed.  My little illustrator to be takes a few quiet moments to take advantage of the resources around her to create the picture in her head.   In today's backpack I'd gotten a sign up sheet for continuing strings that I threw away,  not wanting to push or do anything that would remind her of how sick she was earlier this year.  To that end, it seems we will be taking up viola this year.  After 1 1/2 years of violin (which we ended up stopping in February), she came home jazzed that in 4th grade she can do viola. She explained to me...

Mom, "it's what I wanted to do from the start, 

it just wasn't something we were allowed to do at 2nd & 3rd."  

"It sounds so much prettier, deeper."  

The need to play strings still burns within her, so happy!