Glimpses of warm days

Ox-eye daisies and poppies growing everywhere.



Fields of organic wheat and oats growing, growing.




Butterflies outside and inside



Our weather tree. We started this in the autumn and have continued adding leaves up to end of Spring.



Picking elderflowers to make cordial.



Bumble bees, crysallis and bits of egg shells found and added to our nature table.



And lots of vegetables growing in our garden. These lettuces grew from the warmth of shared seeds from a dear smiling friend..at A Smile A Day.

Happy warm days!

Sunday

Well, I didn't even manage to stay awake for Earth Hour on Saturday night! I fell asleep with the boys and my poor husband spent a peaceful, but lonely hour reading by candlelight alone. Our boys took it in turns to have a vomiting bug last week but this morning they are all better with sparkling eyes and rosy cheeks again. Thank goodness our new babe didn't decide it would be a good week to decide to arrive. Giving birth and cleaning up sick wouldn't have gone too well!



Last week, Sol started reading and towards the end of the week, he picked up knitting and he is knitting little Noah a scarf. He is so happy with himself and it is lovely having him sit beside me as a knitting companion.



We have started on the Four Processes of Maths and had a great time sharing out strawberries which Gnome Divide had provided for a snack on our gnome division adventure.



The primroses are up and have little buds. The blackthorns are about to burst into bloom covering the hedgerows with their white blossom.



Wild violets are peeking here and there and the carpet of dog's mercury in the woods is emerging and adding green to the woods.



We loved this - a dog mercury plant has sprouted underneath an old snail shell lifting it up and up as it grows towards the sun.

The promise of Spring

When the first flowers of early spring bloom, how it fills me with joy and anticipation. New life is awakening. This year it is even more precious to me as we are drawing closer and closer to the birth of our fourth babe in around 7 weeks time - a second spring baby. How excited I am getting to experience birth once again and to meet our little love.

The crocuses the boys planted on Autumn Equinox, in the pots they painted themselves, are starting to bloom.



There is a secret, hidden, magical spot in our woods which to us heralds that spring is coming. Each year we look in anticipation for the snowdrops and winter aconites to appear here.



It is a beautiful spot and the boys get so excited to see the flowers for the first time here. They get down on their bellies and admire and speak to the little flowers.

Wild flowers of spring

Oh, the beauty of Spring.  See all the beautiful wildflowers we have discovered in our surrounds - all growing in abundance.

Wood anemone

Lesser Celandine

Cowslip

Bluebell

Violet

Primrose

Dandelion