May Day and Mother's Day

Flowers. Flowers. Flowers.

Need I say more?
Today is May Day, and there is no better reason to surprise someone with a special basket of blooms. The ritual is to leave them on your neighbor's step or hanging on their door knob, ring the bell, and run like crazy. May Day is a big deal for me. It was celebrated at my school every year. Our May Day Festival included games, food, and, of course, dancing. Every elementary grade did a dance, but the 6th graders did the traditional Maypole dance. It was the final dance, and it was something you looked forward to as you as you graduated to each higher grade. It was quite the ritual, and one I remember very fondly.

AND... as long as we're talking flowers. Plan now for Mother's Day; a short nine days away!

A quick tidbit about Mother's Day for your next Trivial Pursuit game: it was first celebrated in 1908 and Congress made it an official day in 1914.

Consider me a person waiting for a basket of flowers on my doorstep,

-reenie