Happy Solstice everyone!

Wishing everyone a Happy Solstice time where ever you are..

I am in Australia, So it is our Summer solstice here.
We celebrate by huddling up indoors and putting on the air-conditioner. LOL! It gets ridiculously humid and hot here in the Tropics..especially Humid.
But it is a time that all the Summer fruits are out.. Nectarines, Cherry's, Grapes, Peaches, Watermelon Yummo!!! Its time to pot your herbs and put them to higher grounds, ready for the monsoonal rains, Get your gardens trimmed back and ready for a massive growth spurt with the humidity and rains that are coming.
Mark the summer solstice using the Awen Pole with the sunrise.
Spring cleaning ready for the celebrations. and more room for the toys the kids get for Christmas.
Being a Vegetarian family We look forwards to the lush freshly harvested Fruits and vegetables as our banquet to celebrate.
We do eat a little seafood, freshly locally caught. So we are looking forwards to that too.. (we are not quite Vegan.)

We also Light a Candle nightly for our past over ancestors, as a reminder of them and an invite for them to say they are welcome to come celebrate with us.
We use the singing bowls for a Family ritual. From NOW, Solstice to Christmas day we write down what we would like for others and the world for the New Year to come. , we ritually each burn our paper with our prayers and wishes, so the smoke can then carry them out into the atmosphere, and hopefully get answered.

Summer solstice for us is a time of year we celebrate Life, Family, and count our blessings.

We also, this year will be fostering little dogs to give them a home for a while until they can get forever homes. This is the first time we have fostered dogs, so i have no idea how we are going to go giving them back when we have to I probably will be ok if they had a loving family to go to, but if they have to go back to the shelter it might be a different story. Wish us Luck

We live up the top of Australia where the climate is completely different to the bottom half.. So if you live further down what do you do for the solstice?

ANd not forgetting, Many of my friends where it is Winter Solstice..Snowing and getting colder..
What are you doing to celebrate?

DB, that sounds absolutely lovely! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours!

As for my hubby & I this year, we are taking a cruise to Mexico and spoiling OURSELVES this year. I think this year, we both deserve a little pampering and so we are treating ourselves to a special Christmas gift. Then, when we return home from Mexico, we are headed out to visit our daughter and sil, who will be giving birth to our second grandchild the day we get back from Mexico--via C section.

Another beautiful gift for us this Christmas season. we are definitely being treated well and I give thanks to the ancestors--who have been predicting this baby to me (as you may recall in previous psychic circles we've held) for the last 2yrs.

I wish for all of you, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and many blessings to you all!

Sounds like you are going to have a wonderful time too CN..
OOO another Baby, You getting me all clucky.. We have had 3 born this year to our family, I have had 2 brothers have their first baby.. and My Niece also give Birth.. all of them Boys!! A bit of masculine energy added as we are predominantly females. so a nice balance added. LOL! and oozing cuteness too and a lot of spoiling LOL!.
I Love Babies.
Give your little grandbaby a cuddle for me too and a huge welcome into the world.
Mexico sounds wonderful.. Have a fantastic time CN and hubby xxx
merry Christmas to you and yours too!!


Here is a picture of our New Foster Boy.. He is adorable.. I have no idea how i am going to give him back, I dont think i can.. He is so adorable and our Molly just Loves him. We have only had him for a day.. He is blending in beautifully..

His name is Sterlo... We are assuming it is after Sterling Silver, Because he is a Silver Back Heeler.. Blue Heeler / Red Heeler cross.

Baby arrived around 7:30am-7:45am. I am not sure of the time. She weighed in at 6lbs. 10 oz. (or was it 14, lol!) and 18 inches long. Her name is Katherine MacKenna Michaels. Mother and baby doing fine.

We came home from our cruise to a foot of snow and miserable roads. So, we cancelled our trip out to visit mama and baby. Instead we are going out the first weekend in January. I can't wait!!!

You know I'll give her a good cuddle and hug from you, thanks DB.

Fantastic News CelticNoodle, Lovely Name Katherine. All exciting for you Noodle.. enjoy every moment. xxx Be thinking of you

Baby Katherine had her first check up today at her doctors. When she left the hospital, she lost weight and weighed only 6lbs. 4oz. today, at the doctors she weighed in at 7lb. 4oz!!!

SHE GAINED A WHOLE POUND IN 6 DAYS!!! She also grew 2 inches!!!

this baby is what I call the

AMAZON BABY!!!

(you know, like Amazon women?) She is one strong baby. Not sure I shared this story, but after her birth, they weighed her and measured her and put her into a glass crib to give her - her first bath. She got SOOO mad, she was rolling and rocking and throwing her arms and legs all around, and at one point rolled onto her side and grabbed ahold of the side of the glass crib and jsut about turned over completely--ON HER OWN!!!

shocked the nurse and my sil. he actually got a picture of it, so when we return from our visit next week--I'll send it to you, DB, and you can possibly post it here for me. this kid is STRONG!!!

watch out big sister, (our oldest granddaughter) there is a NEW ruler in the house now!