Michaelmas
Another homeschooling year has begun. I thank God that I am able to keep my children safe at home and teach them with faith and love.
Please join us later for tea. We’ll be having roast lamb chops with apples, potatoes, rosemary and petite onions, gingered carrots, green salad, Struan Bread, Michaelmas pie and dragon cake When we are all suitably full, we’ll have reading of St. George and the Dragon followed by small gifts of school supplies.
And if you are educating your children at home and would like to join us this year, I will be hosting a book discussion group on my homeschooling weblog. Please stop by and have a look.
The Song of the Michaelmas Daisy Fairy
“Red Admiral, Red Admiral,
Alighting on my daisies one by one!
I hope you like their flavour and although the Autumn’s near,
Are happy as you sit there in the sun?”
“I thank you very kindly, sir!
Your daisies are so nice,
So pretty and so plentiful are they;
The flavour of their honey, sir, it really does entice;
I’d like to bring my brothers, if I may!”
“Friend butterfly, friend butterfly, go fetch them one and all!
I’m waiting here to welcome every guest;
And tell them it is Michaelmas, and soon the leaves will fall,
But I think Autumn sunshine is the best!”
-Cicely Mary Barker
