vision piece

Over the past few days I have been consulting with friends about what we can do for our children for Ayyam-i-Ha, and I have come up with this sketch of a Baha'i calendar which would be made out of fabric. Next to each of the flower petals, on the outside are small circles which are buttons. A small beaded something would be moved from petal to petal depending on which month it is, and the 19 petals(days) would be attached with velcro to the flower, and when we are not using them, put in the small pockets below. On the left, is a small hand reperesenting the 4 or five days of Ayyam-i-Ha(service), again with the buttons to move the small beaded something. Maybe I would add another pocket next to the hand to place "service assignments" for each of the days of Ayyam-i-Ha. On the right, would be a pocket for Holy Day petals. Another idea is to compile special recipes people use during the Fast, maybe with small descriptions about why a particular recipe has special memori...

starting out the first day of my 36th year with hidden presents(from a husband in distant location), and banana bread we celebrated and then the kids created a home with the dining room chairs in the living room...the baby was trying to figure out how she could ride inside the little car...it was a lovely day.

Yesterday the boys (ours and some dear friends)decided they would create masterpieces, and in order not to be upset if they were broken, I took photos of each one(I'm not sharing all of them). The boys were very excited about what they accomplished. I put in one photo taken earlier in the day of the little one. She likes breaking the houses, hence the need for taking photos in the first place.

In December, I went to Italy to check out the job we finally recieved our paperwork necessary for the work permit from Italy...I like the school, but the cost of living was too much to make it possible. My dear husband is in California checking out jobs there, for a month now and another month in Feb-March.