the mural

My church has a preschool, where my son has attended for 2 years. I don't do anything much in the way of PTA or anything, but I thought it would be nice to do something for them that was unique and fun. A friend of mine is in charge of part of the children's ministry, and asked if I could think of a way to spruce up the place we called "the sunshine hole," a circular space near the preschool entrance where kids can climb, which has a teeny window above. It was getting pretty ratty, dusty etc, so I thought it would be really fun to turn it into a true sunrise, and use kids' handprints on the wall as the beams of the sun. So we did. The day we did the prints, a photographer came to take shots of these other murals (which are AWESOME!!!! noah's ark, but like you've never seen it!!!), and my friend asked him to take a few shots of the kids and I. I had just gotten over the food poisoning bit, and wasn't wearing makeup...but the kids are as cute as ever. And A hammed it up bigtime, sheesh. Check out the rest of the photos here.