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Thursday, May 1, 2008

May Day!


Happy May Day to you!

by iteach

When I was a child May 1st was one of my favorite days. My mom would help us make Mayday baskets to give to all the neighborhood kids. We always used a white styrofoam cup and attach a pipe cleaner to it as a handle. We filled it with popcorn and candy. My little sister and I had so much fun making these with our mom. Then came my favorite part. We would leave them by our neighbor's door, ring the doorbell, and run. It was so much fun to be sneaky. Even though it was a lot of fun doing it for other people, I secretly hoped I would get one by my door too. I would scream with delight when I would hear the door knock and see baskets on the steps.

Those were the good old days, because May day is now a dieing tradition. I'm so surprised every year to hear my students say that they don't do that tradition at home. I still do it in my classroom. We make a basket out of construction paper. Then we fill it with paper flowers, popcorn, and candy. Finally, we leave the basket at another classroom's locker.

I also still do it with my own children. We make them the night before for all the kids in their preschoool classroom. We don't have any neighborhood kids to give them too. Last year they had so much fun making them and I can't wait to do it again this year.

Did you make May Day baskets when you were a little child?

Also, here is something corny to do since I'm a corny type of person. Let's make May Day baskets to hand out to our fellow owls.

Here is my basket to you-

salty white popcorn
orange circus peanuts
gumdrops
dumdum sucker
and violets from my backyard

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226 comments:

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ibebold said...

That never gets old!!!
Where is everyone...
Well it is late here ... so Good Night..
I have so much to do tomorrow to get ready for the race this weekend!!!
I am getting excited!!!
Have a great night ladies and gents!!!!

And I had no Idea about scrapbook day tomorrow.. glad I will be busy!!!

ibebold said...

BonO-- he said he would love to come out there and fix your garden!!
He loves playing the dirt and growing things..and is very good it...LOL>..

ibebold said...

We have a Cat nip tree/bush whatever it is.. we have one... our cat loves fresh catnip...

ibebold said...

Thanks Tina..We will...

ibebold said...

O.K. really out of here now...Sleep tight Night Owls!!!!

ibebold said...

OH!!!!
I almost forgot...


BARBWA---

My "my space" default pick is in honor of your may day comment... These are in my front yard..
Just wanted to tell you that !!!

Bon'O said...

Oops..."hoPe to grow my own salsa"...Sorry, I was performing heart surgery while posting :o)

MEK in AZ said...

Scrapbooking is starting on QVC!!!

YIPPEE!!!!!

MEK in AZ said...

Nite cpgem..

Nite IBB...

Congrats on 200!!

Hey bono - growing your own salsa! Can't wait to try it!!

SacBarb - are you going to let me know if you buy anything!!!??

Okay - I'm off to watch!!!

:-)

had a very BAD experience at MEKAL's today - got the nasty cashier - after the week I have had -- she really did NOT want to piss me off today!!!
;-)

Bon'O said...

Welcome home, Tina.

OMG, MEK~~Just switched to QVC. I'm intrigued and I don't even do this stuff. You are $$OOOOOO in trouble! Let me know how much this weekend ends up costing you. 8=)

I'm outta here. Sweet dreams.

Jodi said...

TURTLE - What?!!? No lei for me?

TINA - How is work?

Waving a wing at BON!!!

Jodi said...

MEK - Happy QVC Craft Day!!!

Jodi said...

ZONA - My daughter's concert was great!!! Can't wait til the 10th when she has her last WYSO concert of the season. They are playing one of my favorite pieces by Gustav Holst.....Jupiter from The Planets. I played the piece during one of my marching band seasons. It will be great hearing a full orchestra play it!!

MEK in AZ said...

MAY DAY !!! MAY DAY!!!!

It's scrapbooking day on QVC!! LOL

Hide the credit cards -

Bono - I'll keep track just for you!! :-) Let me know if WE enabled YOU to buy anything..

Jodi - glad the concert went well..

Jodi said...

Good night MEK!!! I'm going back to bed. :P

JoeyfromSC said...

OMG@that link Glynis! ROFLMAO@the smokestack

I bout peed when you wrote that your son had his hands in his pants on the first peformance! OMG! LOL
Kids will be Kids!
I remember the stone soup story!

Carol, I hope Glynis did see the blog too that I did 2 yrs. ago now almost!

It did bring back memories of "happy times"!:)

Mek: Sorry you had a nasty cashier..You should have let her know that YOU sign her paycheck! lol
Without YOU and the other customers, she wouldn't have a job!

OMG I'm so sad I'm gonna miss the QVC Craft day and scrapbooking shows!! I used to LOVE them when I had cable..OH WAIT-I think I can watch QVC online! lol
It just dawned on me!

I love when David Venable(family) LOL
(Can you tell I used to LOVE QVC late at night when I couldn't sleep? I know the hosts by name!)
would host with Lisa Bearnson!! I love that woman..She's made a fortune off of MEK! ROFLMAO

Ok, I'm up wayyy too late!
Happy Friday to you all!!!!!
Jodi, good morning..you'll probably be reading first lol

JoeyfromSC said...

220 had to be even!

JoeyfromSC said...

**performance**
OOPS!

JoeyfromSC said...

222-and Mek, I'm just picking at you about your scrapbooking stuff!:)

Oh and I LOVED that girl Antonella that hosted late at night! I heard she moved to daytime! She was so natural and funny! I watched her from the very first night she practiced hosting!

JoeyfromSC said...

Oh mercy I'll never sleep! I'm watching QVC live online!! hehe

I miss cable:(:(

JoeyfromSC said...

224 goodnite for real this time! Unless someone does a blooper on QVC lol
I love when they make mistakes live! I know WAY too much about QVC

I've had the same membership number for MANY MANY years and know it by heart! ROFLMAO

Sadly, I've never ordered but about 6 things over the years lol

MEK in AZ said...

Joey - I LOVE David Venable - especially during the FOOD shows. I believe that Lisa requests to work with David and Leah - Lisa has good chemistry with them - I watched one host mispronounce her name once and she very "sharply" corrected her and the hours were VERY long for that host!!!

AND - sadly - I wasn't even IN the line of the rude cashier!!

I'm trying SO hard to stay awake for this!! :-)

I hope everyone has an EXCELLENT Friday!!
:-)

MEK in AZ said...

OH Joey - my UPS man and myself used to be on FIRST name basis!!!

:-)

♥LOVEY♥ said...

Good Morning Owls!!!
TGIF!!

Iteach this is a fantastic blog.Thank you!

I've never heard of the May Day celebration or May Day baskets.What a great way to bring in spring.I wrote it in my dairy so I won't miss it next May.

I got into some bad pizza the other day and it took me 2 days to get rid of it.
Omg, I will never again pig out in the middle of the night on food I'm not sure is fresh.LOL

Hope everyone has a fantastic day!
Woohooo the weekend is almost here!!!
xox

Jodi said...

Good morning HOoters!!!

JOEY - Did you say that David Venable is family? That guy is hilarious!!!

Jodi said...

MEK - Are you still at it? Looks like there are scrapbooking shows scattered throughout the day.

LOVEY - Looks like I just missed you.

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