Tomorrow's Tomatoes

Our many Goddesses ~ by L Moore

tiny, tender, earth's

greening shoots; primavera

tomorrow's garden

Today the kids and I hoe,

laughing, stretching out, digging deep

spring awakens an inner vigour;

a need to plant, to be one with the earth,,

a great joy from depths within

and so the cycle begins again,

planting, growth, abundant harvest

honouring her,

this month of May

linking to

haiku my heart at recuerda mi corazon

  happy in the month of May!

The Great Mother (Earth)

Mother Earth by C Moore age 5 (c)2005

Earth Day!

I love getting out in my own little piece of dirt and seeing that while we cocoon away the winter, mother earth just keeps on doing her thing..

drag the family or yourself out of doors!

get your hands in the dirt, pull weeds
plant seeds, tend your veggie garden or start one,
a planter garden works
herbs are easy in a terracotta pot
get out in the sunshine,
or a walk in the woods on a rainy day works too
go to the beach, no matter the weather, collect shells
walk along a river

its way to easy to spend hours indoors, especially with all our techy entertainment. Oxygen is good for the body and good for the soul, connects us with home, our planet

My Garden

A bee was going 'round and 'round with me
As I drew my garden. He was
Buzzing and spinning, dancing with me
Making me one of his friends

by T Moore, age 3 (C) Earth Day 2001

Happy Earth Day all!

Looking For Beauty in The Daily; The Busy

Such a busy month for those in the arts, or with children in the arts. We have competitions in dance, music, public speaking, sports and.. here comes school year end! But it's all good. I just have to build in the down time for the children, and if I can for me. That one is harder these months of running around, drive here drive there, drive the same stretchof highway 10 times a day :-) back and forth, back and forth! So I am looking for the beauty,

the creative, in the daily things.

And its not too hard to find!

Continue looking around this view of my ironing for example.

Look closer,

there is tons of beauty here.

Ideas to store away for a future, or midnight artistic endeavor even;

I do love spring!

Cascarones

Cascarones - As promised here are the simple instructions.

Next time you make scrambled eggs, use a tack to poke a hole in on end of your egg. Chip out a dime size hole. Rinse the egg shell.

Dry.

Decorate as you please. Dye, paint, glitter, stickers, drawings you've drawn etc.


Fill egg with a large pinch of confetti.

Cut about a foot of paper streamer and roll it into a flower. Twist the role together but leave large flower at the top.

Put white glue around the outside of the hole in the egg and secure the paper flower to cover the hole.


Ta da! Cascarone! Use for birthdays, Easter, any fiesta! Eggs are to broken above, not on (eggshells can be sharp, organic shells are quite hard) someones head and the contents sprinkled on them for good fortune!

April Project 1 complete and delivered to friends!

April Goals and Rhythm

Easter! The children (and lucky parent volunteers) learned to paint Pysanka, Ukrainian Eggs. We had a fabulous workshop at school, run by Joan Brander of Baba's Beeswax, who managed to create success, step by step, for all ages gr K through 7!

If you have not followed this blog before these monthly planning pages lay out a general structure for the month, including a theme and seasonal table, a way to wake, a table candle blessing, a couple of projects and a verse for going to sleep. These are goals the follow up varies from great to imperfect but having the plan helps it to happen and helps bring rhythm to our days!

April Festival / Theme
Easter, Spring is in the air.

Seasonal Table
In our handy dandy spring storage case (see post September 29th, 2009) we have all the little Easter trinkets we have made, collected and been gifted over the years. Flower fairies, eggs, chicks, bunnies. Felted, paper, wooden, stitched. We keep palm crosses made for Palm Sunday each year - they dry nicely. We even have blown Easter Eggs made for the past decade; some are whole some are pieces. This year we add our Eggs!

Waking Song
"Little rabbit foo foo, hopping through the forest, picking up the field mice and bopping them on the head" (may not be politically correct but it sure is fun)!
Little Rabbit Foo Foo - from summer camp - an old favorite around here.. we just sing the first few lines then everyone joins in as they wake and goes where it goes.. :-)
Feel free to use comments to request words to look them up on Google.

Breakfast Verse
"Snowdrop snowdrop dressed in green and white, what do you do when teh cold winds blow?
Hide my little heard and say, Cold winds, cold winds, go away."
Seems appropriate as it is colder now in teh Northwest than its been all winter :-) we'll save the 2nd verse for next month and spring weather.

Bedtime Verse
"Star for you to wish on, sun so warm and bright
Moon for you to think on, pleasant dreams, a kiss goodnight."
Author unknown, a friend gave this to us - we draw the pictures, star, moon on the child's tummy as we tuck them in. Our children are getting older but tehy still love these familiar traditions!


April Project 1 - Cascarones
Easter cascarones - a new twist on an old Latin tradition. Little pinata eggs that can be broken for luck over a friends head and contents (confetti) sprinkled for fun - have a dust pan handy :-) For Easter we photocopy and shrink some of our art to glue onto the egg. Instructions will follow in a future post this month - watch for them!

April Project 2 - Ukrainian Eggs
The children did a Pysanka workshop at school and it was fabulous. Instructions will also follow on a future post!

April Project 3 - Easter Bread
We are ambitious this month (and all at the beginning as Easter is pretty quick); but Easter bread is a family tradition! Watch for it!