April Showers Bring...

First and foremost...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES TO ERICA!!!!










Good morning HLAland! Heather posting today's post and I'm struck by the appropriateness of today's title as I sit at my computer typing today's post, late no less, because of a thunderstorm which temporarily knocked out our power. April Showers have certainly visited Grapevine, Texas this month.

Today's post however doesn't talk about the torrential rain that is beating against my window at this very moment. No, instead it talks about all the fun and creative ways we can look at this age old adage.

While we certainly already covered baby showers when we hosted our virtual shower in February I'd be remiss to not address the fact that for a May baby an "April Shower" would be ideal featured around the fact that the baby is the "May Flower". I'd picture umbrellas and flowers galore. It would also provide a fun twist for invitations and party games.

But lets get past the obvious form of shower and explore some other "showers" that we can infuse with some HLA creative energy.

• There are of course our morning (or night time) showers. You might think there is no way to make this creative, get in, get clean, get out (and if you are like me get out before your child starts crying). But I've always been told, and found it to be true, that the time in the shower is some of your best thinking time. But when you have that "aha" moment or brilliant idea in the shower does the thought leave your head before you are finished drying yourself off? If so I stumbled upon this fantastic idea of putting a dry erase board in your shower to capture those great ideas. You never have to lose a creative thought again. And, even better, why not "steal" one of your kids bath crayons and just use that for your fun ideas?


• Baby Showers, Bridal Showers and the like. Here is a creative idea I've just learned about. Typically we "shower" a first time baby with all sorts of amazing things and then leave the parents on their own for future children. The thought behind this is that they already have the "big stuff" but often the baby will be a different gender or twins and that means different clothes or different needs altogether. What if for subsequent children friends and family "sprinkled" the new arrival buying small essential items like clothing, diapers, and bath supplies?

"Pins, Diapers, Bottles Galore
Suzanne and Brian are having one more
Big sisters Logan and Sophia have plenty to share
This is only a "sprinkle" to show that we care"

But now onto the real "shower" of our post. "Showers of Kindness" or more specifically in our community "Showers of Random Acts of Kindness". You may remember last year (actually around this time) Claudia embarked on a week of RAKs to get herself out of a funk. Well friends I feel I can speak for both Claudia and I when I say that we are in a funk again. With husbands working long days and way too much on our plates, coupled with the rainy weather we need some help to get out of this funk. So, today on this last day of April I am challenging each member of highlowaha to engage in a random act of kindness. Whether letting someone in front of you in line at the grocery store, buying a co-worker's coffee, or any other good deed we'd like to spread kindness in our shower today.

Report back to highlowaha what your RAK was and get in on a drawing for a fun derby prize!
Also we'd love to have you weigh in on other fun "shower" ideas.

Signing off until tomorrow...