The
Month of May
May
Day, Mother’s Day and Memorial Day.
All three days are
days of celebration and days of remembrance.
The Maypole,
decorated with flowers, celebrates the beginning of May, which ushers in earth
in full bloom.
Mother’s day honors mothers both living and
dead. I remember each Mother’s Day dad
would buy me a red rose to wear to church signifying that mom was alive and he
would wear a red rose in his label. I remember
the Mother’s Day that the color of his rose turned to white. I am still thankful that I wear a red rose in
honor of my mom.
Memorial Day seems to
have gotten less important but it shouldn’t because it is on that day that we
honor those men and women who gave their all for our nation’s freedom. I am writing and you are reading this post
because we can because they did.
I have an idea: each day in May begins with an
M; May 1st, May 2nd, May 3rd etc so let’s make every day in May a day of
celebration and remembrance: 31 days to fill with fun, hope, joy, thanksgiving
and special memories.
Books are a great way
to teach our children about these holidays. Below is a list of websites that
offer some reading recommendations.
Mother’s Day: http://holidays.kaboose.com/mom-books.html
Memorial Day: http://www.theholidayzone.com/memorial/books.html
Enjoy
the holidays!
Martha Swirzinski
www.MovementPlus.com
8 comments:
Love the idea of making everyday a celebration.
Excellent thoughts, Martha, thank you!
Thanks for sharing this. I'm going to post a blurb on my blog tomorrow as I'm blogging everyday about Mother's Day this week and this fits right in with that.
Great reminders about what's happening in May and links to children's books!
Clever reminder of all the M's. Thanks.
Virginia, I'll have to check out your blog. That's great you are blogging everyday about Mother's day.
Martha, you make the excellent point that Mother's Day is another opportunity to teach kids (as are all holidays). Books for mother's day is a great idea - especially poetry books that you can pair with flowers or chocolate or even a little jewellery (I like organic green & blacks dark chocolate!). Of course the poetry book that Carolyn Howard-Johnson and I have out is themed to mother's day and is therefore perfect, but poetry of all sorts lends itself to gift giving.
Magdalena,
How right you are! Books are a great gift to give and your poetry book is a wonderful idea.
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