Happy Ayyam'i'Ha ("Days of Joy")! This is a special celebration in the Baha'i Faith, a time for service to others as well as fun parties and exchange of gifts. Ayyam'i'Ha stars Feb 26th, and goes until March 1st.
To celebrate this year, we made new decorations (garlands of yarn and beads), and hung our "pockets" -- banners that hang on the wall and hold small gifts for each other. I made these a few years back, my own design. There is a fifth pocket (for leap years) that folds under and snaps for hide-away on non-leap-years.
We also enjoyed a trip to an Amerk's hockey game (Malcolm's first time going to a game!). This was a gift from my brother, Darin, and his girlfriend, Pat (who we absolutely adore!!) Malcolm loved the hockey game, and has asked several times to go back. These requests seem to have absolutely nothing to do with hockey and sound like this: "Mom, remember when we went to the place with hot dogs and chicken fingers and french fries and sugar juice and ice cream? Let's do that again some time!" Or, "Dad, can we go to the place with the balloon animal clown lady again? That was really fun!" And "I miss the Really Big Moose! Can we go play at his house
again?"
We wrapped up Ayyam'i'Ha with a party at Malcolm's preschool. Sadly, Matthew had to work, but Malcolm's B-Ma (birthmom) was able to join in, and fun was had by all. The party included story time and a chat about "what makes us feel joyful," followed by a craft, a pinata and a snack time.
2 comments:
Happy Ayyam'i'Ha to you too!! It sounds like a most lovely celebration!
How very cool that you could have a party at Malcolm's preschool! I think next year when the discussion of different world religions rolls around (usually around December), I will ask if you'd be a guest speaker for Kiddo's class to talk about the Baha'i Faith. They had Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Hinduism covered this past year - oh and Kwanzaa too - but I don't think she's ever learned about Baha'iism (um, did I just make up a word?).
Love the Amerks pictures, too! :-D My favorite part of the Amerks game I once attended was watching the PeeWee teams on the ice during the intermissions (I *know* they're not called "intermissions" but dagnabit, I'm just not sporty).
No more Mohawk!
We have to get the kids together soon It has been entirely too long.
And, I have you marked down as my Harry Potter partner in July, right...right?!?!
If you haven't heard of it, check out www.kidsoutandabout.com. They have a newsletter and website with stuff going on locally.
They just gave away free tickets to 2 different razorsharks games. We made it to one but only lasted through the first half with the youngest.
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