Happy Imbolc!
(photo from Imbolc celebration 2007 by Mark Kelly; used with permission) Today is the Celtic fire festival of Imbolc, which is so deliciously wrapped up also in the Catholic festival of Candlemas, the...
View ArticleThis Moment: Signs
Spring is coming! I see signs of it everywhere. Bud are swelling on trees, the earliest magnolia in my neighborhood is starting to flower, my bulbs are coming up, there’s baby peeps for sale at the...
View ArticleValentine Making Party
This was the scene in our home this past weekend. Our kids sat down with us and tackled their two class sets of valentines. I helped by cutting out many, many hearts … And amid kitchen clutter and...
View ArticleRecovery and Thanks
Hello, I’ve been absent from this space due to a nasty virus, which is lingering and has entirely overstayed its welcome. I came down with it on Valentine’s Day, which is a special kind of meanness,...
View ArticleSigns of Spring
I’ve been watching carefully for signs of the coming spring. Perhaps you have been too? I collected these for you, in case your eyes are aching for some color and you’re tired of being cold. Or even...
View ArticleOur Hobbit Tutorial at the Family Book Festival
Please join me and my family at today’s post on Jump Into A Book. We were delighted to be asked to contribute to this year’s Family Book Festival, which features book reviews and activities by other...
View ArticleEaster Baskets and Giveaway from A Toy Garden
It’s time to think about building Easter baskets. We’ll sow some wheat grass seeds in our Easter baskets on March 14 or so and let the grasses grow up until Easter Sunday. They make a lovely soft bed...
View ArticleSpring Festivals E-Book Is Here
My friend Eileen Straiton of Little Acorn Learning and I are very happy to announce that our Spring Festivals E-Book is now available! This is a teaser mosaic of photos from our e-book. It covers St....
View ArticleEaster Giveaway Winners!
Congratulations to our Easter giveaway winners—Molly, RaeAnne, and Crystal—and a huge thank you to all those who participated in the first Love in the Suburbs giveaway. I will be contacting the...
View ArticleThe Miracle of Eggs
I get it now. Although I’ve always loved Easter and the springtime, I think I really get it now. I’ve studied Christianity and the goddesses of world religions and I’ve done my share of pagan...
View ArticleShamrockin’ Half Marathon and Crockpot Lamb Stew
Our St. Patrick’s Day was really different this year, although we did do some of our traditional family celebrating, such as creating this cool party space for the leprechauns. Ian ran in the...
View ArticleSpring Is Here!
Everything is flowering now, it seems, in joyous celebration of the start of spring. How did you celebrate? My darling husband built me a raised garden bed this past weekend. It’s glorious and 8 ft....
View ArticleEaster Fun
We had big Easter fun on both Saturday and Sunday. We visited Ian’s parents’ home on Saturday and celebrated with family. The boys love hunting eggs at grandma and grandpa’s house because they have a...
View ArticleFifth Grade Botany: Learning Outdoors
Back in the fall, Lucas’s fifth grade class at Waldorf school started a main lesson block on botany. They have revisited the subject since then and are enjoying another botany block now, but I just...
View ArticleWeekending
We were blessed with wonderful house guests this past weekend—friends who were willing to fall into our family rhythm and enjoy some simple pleasures like home meals and nature walks. There’s nothing...
View ArticleImperfection and Joy
There’s a lot of that going on around me and inside me. I have had so many great posts brewing in my mind lately, but have managed to get exactly none of them onto this blog, for lots of reasons. I...
View ArticleFifth-Grade Pentathlon
What a day! Last Friday we attended with Pentathlon for all area Waldorf schools’ fifth graders. It was held a Live Oak Waldorf School in Meadow Vista and it was nothing short of spectacular in every...
View ArticleLast Days of School
We’re in the final stretch of the school year. My kids are about to change overnight from Kindergartner and fifth grader to first grader and sixth grader. These last few days at school are spent...
View ArticleMidsummer Festival E-Book
Summertime is here! I often wonder how in the world I’m going to fill 13 consecutive weeks of “summer vacation,” and so I tend to start planning early. I’d like to offer up the Midsummer Festival...
View ArticleSummer Kickoff!
What better way to kick off summer than to take a vacation? The boys and I drove up to South Lake Tahoe to spend a few days in the woods. Having some time with just the boys was fun, just as I’d...
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