Who knew? My first blog post is about pink cupcakes. Well, I do spend a lot of time with a 3 and a half year old girl.

We recently celebrated the Birth of Spring with my little girl and a handful of her friends (with their parents too). I am very interested in finding inspiring, creative ways to celebrate the natural cycles with her and teach her about the ordinary magic of the changing of seasons. We wanted to celebrate the Spring Equinox on the Spring Equinox, but the Spring Fairies could not find their way to our garden in a foot of snow! So we waited until the First Full Moon of Spring, which is just as well. The night before, we left a plate of fruit out in our backyard for the Fairies to eat as an offering. In the morning, we checked to see if they had come to eat our offering. (We hear that they only come when children are sleeping and dreaming of Spring…) Vwa-la! there was only a half eaten rose petal left!

The Spring Fairies sometimes leave a basket of treasures for children in their gardens when Spring returns. So we looked around and found a beautiful purple tulip basket full of goodies…little fruit bunnies, tinkerbell socks, a new toy fairy with glittering wings, paper grass, and jeweled eggs for Zahara!

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