"Welcome to my pasta house..." ~ Luigi
Happy November!!! Samhain was a delight this year, as it usually is. Saturday we attended a family-friendly celebration and had a really wonderful time. Yesterday (Sunday) we took the kids trick-or-treating and then left the little ones with our oldest and went to an adults-only Samhain ritual. It was wonderfully done, and I really love the group of people who tend to participate each year! There is laughter, remembering loved ones who've passed, travel to the Summerlands, tossing our corn dollies from Lammas into the fire, dancing, and reflecting on the turning of the wheel.
One thing I will say is that it was COLD last night! We had extra layers on and a blanket and we were still pretty darned cold! It was pretty amazing out, however, with the pale leaves hanging over the yard in a very enchanted way. Afterwards, there was a nice pot-luck dinner inside, where people got a chance to catch up with one another and enjoy looking around a huge, Victorian-style house that is always meticulously decorated for the season. Good times!
What was NOT as much fun, was breaking down on the way home with a blown tire!
We were less than 2 miles from the ritual on our way home, when our van blew a tire. Thankfully, a cop came along and called for a wrecker for us (but UNthankfully, we got a VERY disagreeable tow truck driver! BUT, I am trying to release the yucky energy surrounding his attitude, so I'll leave it at that).
So now our van is sitting incapacitated in our yard, waiting for a friend to come along and remove the tire from behind the rim and replace it for us. I am trying to look at is as: "Perhaps this blown tire detained us long enough to avoid a drunken driver further up the road". I'm not quite smiling about that just yet, but it IS helping!
On Susan's blog, she has a great way to get kids to work on writing, spelling, phonics, creativity, you name it! She calls them palmleaf books, which is a style of book that dates back to ancient times (in her directional pdf, she explains the history of them) This cute little way to recycle cardboard -and other materians - as well! This would work with cut up cereal boxes or any other kind of cardboard that you might normally just throw away.
These books are Susan's way to celebrate children's author Ed Emberley's birthday. Susan has graciously allowed people to share the link to her pdf for creating palmleaf books here at this link.
I love the idea of using themes of the season or a theme such as animals to create little books that children will LOVE! Enjoy!
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