House Guests

"Uro"- mobile #1.

apple season, picked at the ONE tree we have on old house property.

autumn nature table. 

So, we have visitors and a house full of guests is wonderful!

Now Ramona nd Joshua are here for two weeks to begin with. The children love it, and get to practice thier English everyday with someone other than me. They get to train on all those sticky social skills and how to just BE... THen they are off to California for a wedding but will be back mid-October. They MIGHT be staying through the winter, waiting to bike on, and get to experience the Norwegian winter. I think it will be grand opportunity to be with friends one doesn't se so often, and learn how to live together. It is actually easier to make dinner for 7, since there are more adults to help out. Looking

forward to meal planning and new recipes!

beautiful guests had birthday same day. 

Outside the Autumn is falling literally, and it is COLD. Anders put up a rope bridge a few weeks ago. Wonderful.

monkey jasmin.

finally a good shot of all three of them.

St. Michael.

Working, even from home, during the day causes all new dynamics in the home. I have found it necessary to plan and protect our waldorf-iness, lest it dissolves into everyday-ness.

I have been planning and preparing for Michaelsmas festival, on the 29th of September. Hoping to create a small littel celbration, with dragon bread and a combined harvesting/ Autumn festival, even though the season is early. We have been telling the story in various forms, we have been cutting sticks for swords and I have been planning their capes, to be made ready for them to get on the day of the party. I have an excellent little pamphlet on celebrating St.Michael written by a Inger Brochman, Used the resources for Autumn from Live-Education, Little Acorn Learning has a little and  the Rhythm of the Home website has a little piece on it, AND a pattern for making the dragon! We have been practicing singing Falling stars from a wonderful parent resource I would like to recommend: Sing a Song of Seasons by Schunemann. 

Falling stars, falling stars, shoot across the sky.

Falling stars, falling stars, bring to earth your light.

Seasonal songs in English, with a CD so I can learn the melodies first, usually when I am driving. Beautiful voice, lyrics and so easy for both mom and child to remember these tunees.

A new story book I stumbled over on Amazon: The Tale of Tiptoes Lightly, the first book in a series of stories about the forest fairy Tiptoes and her friends Jeremy Mouse and the little dwarves.

A wonderful collection of small simple, nature loving stories. It fits Jasmin perfectly, the two small ones drift off and play cats on the floor, as I read for her before bed time.

I am reading the first one in the series for now. Today I plan to read the one on of the Autumn stories,as it contains a story on Michael and the dragon, just another way to introduce it to Jasmin.