Making a fairy house
Ok, it sounded easy to make a fairy house. You just make the box, and decorate like a house. I thought the kids would love making it! It turns out they do, but they also want to play with the glue gun and get burned. So, I have them pick out the things they want put where and I do all the dirty work.
I knew I'd be doing it all, and in retrospect, this probably would have been better to do when they were older. However, watching my kids laughing and having fun picking out spots for their stones has been so much fun, I can hardly complain!
What we did to make the fairy house is, get some thick posterboard, the kind with some hefty thickness, I got two. I cut it in half and cut four sections for the walls, and used the other piece to cut a square for the roof. I took some sea glass and used them to cut fitted windows and I stuck the piece in the hole I created. I cut a door, and then I glues the four walls together and then I glued them to the other half of the posterboard. We decorated the inside with shell furniture and sconces, also some rock sofas, and we glued multicolored feathers all over the walls. Then, I got some glitter and spread glue all over the cieling and sprinkled on the glitter. We added some shells to make pretty ceiling light type things.
Then, we (well, I) Glued the roof on.
We got some spanish moss, although I'm sure that any moss would do, and glued it to the roof and the "ground". Then we decorated the outside walls with small pebbles and shells and put on a door. You can decrate the yard if you want to. We are putting up a table and some mini flower pots with flowers.
All in all, this has been really fun and I would do it again, but maybe not anytime soon!
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The choice
When I first found out I was pregnant almost 4 and a half years ago, I presumed that being a mother would be so simple and straightforward. After all, I was great with kids, had worked in daycare, and helped raise my two younger cousins. How hard could it be to raise a kid? And raising them Pagan? Easy peasy. Then Jaden was born. He was the most adorable, sweetest little baby boy any new mother could imagine. I was smitten.
Then we went home. The question of how to raise him Pagan stayed with me.
I had no idea how to include my little
newborn in the faith that I shared. It was made more difficult by a husband who,
while he is quite understanding
of my need to be "different" as he called it, he didn't want our kids to go to school later on in life and get made fun of or ridiculed by their peers when he informed everyone that his Mommy is a witch. While I understood where he was coming from being someone that went through school as not the most popular of girls, I also thought that it was important for me not to give in to the uneducated masses.
My husband is a little more educated when it comes to my religion and why I want to teach my children my spiritual beliefs and now he is fine with it. I beleive that if we teach our children that there are many, many, many ways to the divine, they will be better prepared to choose something that is right for them later on in life. If they choose to carry on the Wiccan tradition that I will pass on to them, that would be wonderful too. Everyone could do to love the Earth and their felow man a little more.