Recent Posts Tagged With 'tradition'

• St. Nicholas Celebration

  Posted on Monday December 8th, 2008 at 15:20 in books, tradition

  You may have noticed that I never got around to the promised description of our St. Martin celebration. Time got away from me and eventually so much time had passed that it just seemed rather silly to post about it. However, fear not, I will post abo...

• Candle Sing-a-long

  Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 13:26 in tradition

  For this week’s entry to Shannon’s WFMW blog carnival at Rocks in my dryer I wanted to share a special Christmas tradition our family enjoys very much. It is short, easy, and - at least for us - provides a good opportunity to feel the Chr...

• First day of Snow

  Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 07:57 in recipes, tradition

  We’ve been waiting for the longest time and today it is finally here - the first day of snow. When we got up this morning (WAY too early for a Saturday morninig thanks to B) there were a good three inches of snow lying on the ground. Hurrah! It...

• St. Martin Preparations

  Posted on Sunday November 9th, 2008 at 23:25 in family, crafts, tradition, decoration

  Christmas is really coming close now. I can’t believe St. Martin’s (November 11 th) is right around the corner. High time to start making our St. Martin’s lanterns for this year. One of the nicest traditions here is the annual St. M...

• Michaelmas

  Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 03:48 in recipes, tradition

  Today, September 29, is the day we celebrate Michaelmas. It is traditionally the day to honor St. Michael (and the other archangels). The boys have mixed feelings about this day. Legend has it that the devil fell into a blackberry bush when he was th...

• Even More Apples

  Posted on Monday September 8th, 2008 at 12:37 in recipes, tradition

  Fall is still in the air and we are not done with our apple project yet. Today we went to Grandpa’s garden to pick apples. Unfortunately, there weren’t that many apples this year (presumably for the same reason as the dearth of plums?). S...

• Apples, Apples, Apples

  Posted on Saturday August 30th, 2008 at 16:47 in recipes, tradition

  The air is starting to feel like fall, and that means it is about time to start our apple projects again. For some reason, apples just provide many great project opportunities. The first thing we did for our apple season project this year was to take...