I\'m Summer, a mouthy, sarcastic bitch. I\'m passionate about natural birth, long term breastfeeding, and living naturally. I curse too much, love tattoos, and will some day be crushed to death by my book collection. I homeschool, dream of gardening, and swing to the left. 
Solstice Preparations
Tomorrow is the first day of Winter. Since the boys are young, and Trey likes to destroy everything he sees, celebrations are still really light. Today we went to the park and hiked up and down the trails and through the trees for an hour. Evan picked out a tiny pine tree that I carefully dug up and brought home. Along with a large heap of that thick, black dirt. I wish I could bring home a couple buckets of the stuff. All the leaves, worms, bugs, animals, and every thing else that has been naturally composting in that soil. It’s probably some of the richest dirt around.
Tomorrow morning we’re going to get up and plant our little tree in the yard. We’ve got a huge collection of fallen leaves piled up and ready to protect the tiny thing. Though the forecast is calling for snow, in which case I’ve got a large plant pot that will be the tree’s new home for a while.
There are a lot of fun crafts that I’ve wanted to do this week, but they haven’t happened. Partly because I’ve had my nieces all this week and partly because I’ve worried about what Trey will do to anything we put up. I couldn’t even put up the greenery over the fireplace this year because he’s tall enough to rip it down. I’m holding out hope that next year he’ll be calmer and we’ll be able to do more. Like a spiral walk.
[tags]Winter Solstice, kids, celebration [/tags]
Ohh!! Spiral walk…coolness. You’d love this: http://www.threesisterstoys.com/p-331-advent-spiral.aspx hehehe I’m bad…