March Fairy Houses

March is always a great time to get out and connect with nature.  In Tallahassee the weather can turn on you for sure especially recently but this March has been perfect.  I find going out with the kids and collecting items to build a fairy house in the backyard a wonderful way to be playful and notice all the old and new working together in nature.  First we walk around our neighborhood and delight in all sorts of finds.  It is awesome to see the kids planning out the "construction" as well as the interior design.  
If you are lucky you may even find a fairy ring!  After collecting we bring our stuff back to our yard and build.  Inevitably they run out for more materials but I feel so great seeing them work together and getting dirty!  If you want to get started on your own fairy house just go out and do it!  However if you feel you would like a little more instruction here's a good place to start.

Going outside on St Paddy's day and connecting with God's flora and fauna...

This past St. Paddy's day we went on a family trip to Macon GA. While at the hotel my son saw on the morning news program that if you were to look for a 4 leaf clover in a 9 square foot patch of clover statistically you should find one.  Of course the first thing he said to me was, "Mom, we gotta go outside!"  Clearly these are some of my favorite words.  Although we did not find a large patch of clover we found lots of small patches and after only looking for half an hour (a lot of that was finding birds, rocks, centipedes, lizards, etc.) we found a 5 leaf clover!  What are the odds?

That trip was particularly nice as after a quick search of things to do we visited the Museum of Arts and Science which although small was wonderful!  My son loved the mini zoo and had a chance to hold a hissing cockroach.  They offered to gift him one as a pet; I declined.

Mimicry plant in a can!

My son loves nature, and in this case the odd mimicry plant that looks like baby toes!  I am so impressed because when he knew he had to re-pot it because it came in a TINY pot he got a soda can, put rocks in the bottom, found appropriate dirt and re-potted it without any instruction. The plant not only survived but is going strong a month later!