"Special Day"

My daughter starts her second year of preschool tomorrow, which is hard to believe.  She turns 5 in October.  Wow, time sure does fly.  Today we got to spend the day with her getting things that she wanted for school.  We call it her "Special Day."  We are planning to do it with all of our kids before school starts each year.  It's a great time to just hang out with them and make the day completely about them.  We let her pick out her own back pack, folder, new outfit, and even let her decide where we went for lunch.  She picked "Chevy's" which was awesome because I love that place and she loves the dough they give her.  Spending the day with her was awesome and it was so cool to see how excited she got everytime we did something special for her.  If you see her in the next few weeks and you ask her about her special day I'm sure you will get an earful.  She did want to know when she gets her own "real" cell phone.  Anyway, as a father it was awesome doing that for her.  Not to spiritualize everything, but I'm sure that is how God feels when he gets to do special things for us.  I know that if we did that for our daughter everyday she would grow to expect it and not really appreciate it.  I wonder if that is why God sometimes seems to be "far" away.  Even though we know he isn't...