Happy Pagoda Day!!

Happy Pagoda Day!!

To all of you out there who have no idea what that means....well, it means nothing, really. But it's so special to our kids.

Two years ago, Edward (then 3) fell in love with the Reading Pagoda. He watched it light up on the side of Mt. Penn each week when we took Emily to her dance class on that side of the city.

One day, about a month before Christmas, he decided that we should start a new holiday. He and Emily planned and planned. They even made up a song.

We humored them by listening to their plans but realized the holidays are already too busy to add more confusion to the mix. Still, it didn't have to be anything too elaborate...and it would please them.... It was to take place on December 27th, the day after Boxing Day. And we'd sing the song and do a dance of sorts, I guess.

The first Pagoda Day arrived, and my hubby sent us the first-ever Pagoda Day e-card he made using a photo of the Pagoda. We made Pagoda-shaped sugar cookies with red sprinkles on them.

But the "icing on the cake" came when we surprised them by taking them up to the Pagoda at night for our first Pagoda Day photo. They were ecstatic! The lights were wonderful up close and personal like that and you could see all the lights of Berks County it seemed.

So each year we board the car and head up Duryea Drive on Mt. Penn to see the Pagoda at night and get our annual Pagoda Day photo.

It's the simple stuff in life that keeps kids happy...