This is one of my favorite days of the year for two reasons! It is the first day of Spring, bringing rebirth and new life to plants, flowers and the wildlife of my community and that it is Norooz (Persian New Year). My husband is Persian and his culture celebrates the New Year on the exact moment of the Vernal Equinox! This is an important Holiday to our family and along with this comes the tradition of spring cleaning, so if you could see my house today, you’d be impressed! I got down into cleaning out our ridiculous pencil drawer. Does one family truly need five pencil sharpeners?
My sister in-law sent these beautiful flowers to us to help celebrate Persian New Year!
One of the hardest things I find about managing both life threatening food allergies and asthma is talking to others. I hate to be the one that might be perceived as demanding, pushing or for asking too much. What I now know, fourteen years later, is that honest, clear information presented with kindness works!..
Happy Persian New Year!
Thank You Selena!
Happy Spring!
Happy Narooz!
May the balance of light with dark brighten your day and your year.
Love to you all.
Cheryl, John, Ben
ps. I could use a pencil sharpener…just sayin’
John and Cheryl, thank you and we miss you sooooooo much!
Nowruz Mubarak to you and yours! I always mean to do a little haft seen for the kids and run out of time. Maybe next year!
Happy New Year to you too! We could not make a haft seen since our crew is putting in a new heating/air system and the house is covered in dust and we can’t get to our box of Nowruz items!
Leila is making a paper haft seen right now since our table looks naked! I’ll take pictures.