by becca | May 7, 2011 | Family, Festivals, Parenting
May flower crowns in plaited hair, the young girls watched admiringly as the older children danced around the May Pole. Ribbons of pink, blue and yellow being woven around the pole ever so skillfully as the warm May sun shone overhead, finally warming our shoulders....
by becca | Nov 25, 2010 | Family, Festivals
Saint Martin is known most for cutting his cloak in half to share with a beggar during a snowstorm, to save the beggar from dying of the cold. In many countries, St. Martin’s Day or Martinmas celebrations begin at the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of this...