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		<title>Happy May Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 03:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy May Day everyone!&#160; I hope you&#39;ve all had a wonderful day.&#160; The weather here was mostly warm and sunny, turning to overcast in the evening and ready to rain.&#160; I love rain and I love sunny, so it was perfect.&#160; For some reason I&#39;ve always been interested in May Day traditions, but I&#39;ve never [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy May Day everyone!&nbsp; I hope you&#39;ve all had a wonderful day.&nbsp; The weather here was mostly warm and sunny, turning to overcast in the evening and ready to rain.&nbsp; I love rain and I love sunny, so it was perfect.&nbsp; </p>
<p>For some reason I&#39;ve always been interested in May Day traditions, but I&#39;ve never celebrated it myself.&nbsp; I especially like the idea of hanging bouquets of flowers on neighbors&#39; doorknobs, although I&#39;ve never actually tried it.&nbsp; Maybe next year.&nbsp; And then there&#39;s the May Pole tradition, where people dance around a pole with ribbons tied to the top.&nbsp; I&#39;ve never seen it actually done, unless that&#39;s what they&#39;re doing in the movie <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/630522577X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=colinandbetha-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=630522577X" target="_blank"><em>My Fair Lady</em> </a>when the kids are dancing with ropes around a pole in the background of the song &quot;A Little Bit of Luck.&quot;&nbsp; Is there a special dance that weaves the ribbons in a certain way around the pole, I wonder?&nbsp; Oh, I just found some on the internet!&nbsp; Very interesting.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Other May Day celebration ideas are here:</p>
<p><a href="http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/mayholidays/a/aa041700a.htm">http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/mayholidays/a/aa041700a.htm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ldssplash.com/traditions/may_day_traditions/mayday.htm">http://www.ldssplash.com/traditions/may_day_traditions/mayday.htm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/mayday.htm">http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/mayday.htm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day</a>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Hey!&nbsp; And I just found out that in the United States May 1st is officially a legal holiday called &quot;Loyalty Day,&quot; which started as pretty much an anti-Labor Day/anti-communist day.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Okay, so celebrate May Day as the coming of summer and as Loyalty Day because it&#39;s fun and happy and excuse to be nice to people and ignore the pagan stuff.&nbsp; Yay!</p>
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		<title>Family Traditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a couple of weeks I&#39;ll be teaching a combined Young Women lesson on family traditions, so I thought it would be useful to list some of my favorite family traditions (some of my parents&#39; and some of the traditions Colin and I have, too).&#160; Having a Passover Seder every year Easter baskets Christmas: cinnamon [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a couple of weeks I&#39;ll be teaching a combined Young Women lesson on family traditions, so I thought it would be useful to list some of my favorite family traditions (some of my parents&#39; and some of the traditions Colin and I have, too).&nbsp; </p>
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<li>Having a Passover Seder every year</li>
<li>Easter baskets</li>
<li>Christmas: cinnamon rolls for breakfast, opening gifts one at a time directed by Dad, reading the Christmas story together, advent calendars, putting baby Jesus in the nativity scene on Christmas morning (Colin&#39;s parents do that one), reading <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393051587?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=colinandbetha-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0393051587" target="_blank">A Christmas Carol</a></em> every year, singing Christmas carols, taking plates of goodies to neighbors</li>
<li>Reading the <em>Declaration of Independence</em> on the 4th of July</li>
<li>Watching all the sessions of General Conference every time</li>
<li>Family prayer, twice a day</li>
<li>Daily family scripture study</li>
<li>Weekly Family Home Evening</li>
<li>Family Council</li>
<li>Family Outings</li>
<li>On birthdays, the birthday-person gets to choose what to have for dinner and doesn&#39;t have to do any chores.&nbsp; We go around the table at dinner and everyone says something nice about the birthday-person.&nbsp; Mom and Dad tell the story of when the person was born.</li>
<li>Interviews&#8211;my dad regularly had a one-on-one meeting with each of us kids to talk about what was going on in our lives and what we needed help with and how we were doing spiritually.&nbsp; I <em>loved</em> interviews.</li>
<li>Date night&#8211;weekly date with spouse</li>
<li>Daddy-daughter dates-Dad used to take us on one-on-one &quot;dates&quot; occasionally and we got to do fun things with him like go to museums and restaurants</li>
<li>Going to church every Sunday</li>
<li>Staying up till midnight (or trying to)&nbsp;on New Year&#39;s Eve</li>
<li>Singing around the piano</li>
<li>Agendas for everything, including vacations and family reunions</li>
<li>On Valentine&#39;s Day, Dad would buy each of us a carnation</li>
<li>Getting a Priesthood blessing before starting a new school year or going to a new school</li>
<li>Trick or treating in costume on Halloween, even though my mom hates Halloween</li>
<li>Thanksgiving&#8211;saying things you&#39;re thankful for at Thanksgiving dinner.&nbsp; Talking about the Pilgrims.&nbsp; Making tons of pies together from scratch and eating them!</li>
<li>Dad making us hug each other and say nice things to each other when we fought</li>
<li>Summer goals&#8211;Mom would talk to each of us and help us make a list of goals to accomplish each summer.&nbsp; She would give us lessons (sewing, cooking, cleaning, etc.) and Dad gave us our &quot;reading assignments.&quot;&nbsp; </li>
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