Butterfly and Legos

Katharine and I played legos all morning today. I took a few breaks to go find legos downstairs, K didn't join me. I asked her if she wanted to put the butterfly outside (one male eclosed today). She said no, but she did agree to hold it before I let it go. 

So yeah, just playing legos. Working on Ariel's castle (on the left there). The pic above I was using black to make Sebastian's pipe organ. I also made the mice's sewing machine for Cinderella's castle, which I put off, but since I was in the blacks I decided I would. It's been fun. K and I listen to Disney princess songs and sing while we search for legos. She's enjoying the Frozen 2 soundtrack, and yesterday I introduced her to Aladdin. She liked it. 

Yesterday the Wride Nation chat was active with news about Charlie Kirk. I have seen some of 

his videos before, but I didn't know who he was by name. Ethan was the first to hear about it, cause he and Bella were wanting to go to it. Ethan said he followed Charlie Kirk and listened to him everyway. It's really really sad, makes me sick in my heart, and it's been on my mind a lot as I mindlessly look for legos. Yesterday I had to lay down after seeing the video of what happened, really horrible to see someone in the moment their mortality was robbed from them. The older kids came home from school and all their friends had been talking about it. Lily was with a group of friends and a boy came up and showed them all the video, without any context, she didn't know what she was seeing until she saw it, and you can't unsee it. It's sobered all of us up. She said that in books she'll read a line of someone being shot like it's nothing, but to see what it really means and what really happened is something else. It is real, a real life gone, ended, taken that didn't need to be. No one has a right to do that to another person. It's also made me think a lot about Joseph Smith, who was shot and murdered. Joseph Smith's body was working healthy and fine, blood pumping, heart beating, everything in order like it's supposed to be, and then people came and broke it and ripped it up with their bullets. I just feel really sad. I woke up early this morning and read in the Book of Mormon about Zerahemnah (Alma 44) and Amalickiah (Alma 46), it seemed to fit the mood. Hate, contention, destruction & murder are nothing new to this world. It's been going on since Cain. God knows how to deal with it, but He doesn't like it, and for our sakes we need to turn from it and turn to Him and become as he is (love, mercy, creation and life) if we want to be with Him. 

Grateful for time with Katharine today, I love her, and I'm so sorry Charlie lost time with his two sweet children who it was so obvious he cherished so dearly. Time with our little ones is so beautiful, I love it. I'm also grateful for time to build and create, even if it's just silly making princess castles with legos. And I'm grateful for the miracles of life and creation! Butterflies are probably a lot less complicated than human life, but it's amazing and I'm grateful to be able to see and be awed by the process.