December Days

The children's market at the Christmas Party.

Our first home ed band at the Christmas Party.

Decorating...

I took the art group ice skating as an end of year outing.

The annual Christmas Panto for 120 home educators!

She finally fell in love with stickers and made everyone a lot of pictures.

Thea's ice skating outing with some of her friends for her birthday.

Thea turns 11!!

Other people's birthdays are a little hard sometimes.

Birthday party time. We had a japanese theme so lots of crafts... 

making their own Japanese candy and then painting Kokeshi dolls.

Christmas gingerbread house time!

The annual trip to Stewarts to go visit with Santa...

A very special evening where I was taken to the first solstice celebration at the Ancient Technolog Centre by a good friend.

Byron Rd lights.

Christmas movies and hot chocolate. 

Cute!

Ayla's first time at the home nail salon.

Glastonbury Part 2

Glastonbury itself is such an important place for spiritual reasons, it felt so good to finally take the boys there. They have heard the legends and myths of Avalon for years. 

Aside from the obvious destinations, Thea's high point was finding this mural with people exactly like the ones she draws and uses as her specific style. I need to hunt down the artist!

I took them off the beaten tourist track to the lesser known sacred well of Bridgid, which felt like the right and proper pilgrimage after she's being so much a part of our home this year. They are looking forward to trying to make it to Kildare this summer.

Apart from being a beautiful picture of my 4 monsters, behind them is a newly planted orchard which is at the bottom of Bridgid's mound and is being tended to by the Friends of Bridgid. We wanted to take a picture now and then watch them grow together. 

The Chalice Well Garden is easily my favourite place in the town. Is it so peaceful there, I can't imagine a more perfect 'church'.

They all had a drink and a splash in the red spring waters, before heading across the road to the cave of the white spring.

 Orion 'proving' the magic of Avalon by creating Thea's doppelgänger.

And of course the real reason why we were there... my work with Miranda Gray and the Moon Mothers. It was such an honour to help with the training of a new international group of level 2 Moon Mothers, and to become part of the UK co-ordination team and take on the job of being in charge of the UK instagram presence. 

I love my work with the Moon Mothers, the womb healings and blessings are so powerful and transformative for women, and being able to mentor them through their menstrual cycle enables me to empower them to act as their own healers and guides.