World Book Day {The Ordinary Moments}

Welcome back to another week of the Ordinary Moments. If you haven’t joined in before this is a weekly linky that launches every Sunday morning and is open until midnight on the following Saturday. It’s a linky that celebrates any ordinary moments in your life – or the not so ordinary some weeks too. Basically – anything goes. I’ll be sharing and commenting on the posts that are linked up during the week and there’s a badge at the bottom of the post if you’d like to add it to yours too.

When we had the snow days earlier this month, World Book Day at the children’s school was cancelled – as the school was closed. But, much to the children’s delight, it got rescheduled and the children were able to wear their planned costumes on Friday.

I wrote a few years ago about how sad it was that children wore princess and superhero costumes to World Book Day, that it missed the point. But, I wrote that as a pretty naive, new school parent. Now, years later, I know that there are so many books, with so many different characters and as long as World Book Day helps to inspire children to read does it really matter what they dress up as?

So, LP went as her favourite Princess – Ariel. She loves the Little Mermaid book of the Disney movie and loves it even more that her hair matches Ariel’s. I attempted french plaits in her hair and the finished result wasn’t too bad – I definitely need more practice though.

Little Man wore the gingerbread man costume that he wore for World Book Day last year. He’s incredibly attached to it so I was pleased that it still fit – I have no idea how he’ll cope when he outgrows it!

The children literally bounced out of bed for World Book Day and were in the best mood when I dropped them off at school. They love anything different to their normal routine and having something like World Book Day to focus on makes them so excited – especially when they had been waiting weeks for it.

I hope Little Man and LP love dressing up for years to come. It makes them so happy and it’s so much fun for them. Plus, it’s another thing they can do together – and everything is better when they’re together.

If you have an ordinary moment this week, come and link up – I’m looking forward to reading the moments that you share and will comment and share them on Twitter through the course of the week. Thanks so much for taking part.

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