BIF Month o’ May Mash-up!

This month’s theme: Guest post mash-up! Each one of our Blogging in Formation team has picked another’s blog on which to post. We are the lucky recipient of a guest post by none other than Karlene Petitt!

Subject: the sky’s the limit!

Here’s this week’s BIF schedule:

TODAY’S GUEST POST BY: KARLENE PETITT

   As we watched the pink-snow fall from my cherry blossom trees in Seattle last Saturday, I said to my grandkids, “April flowers bring pink snow showers.” My 6-year-old granddaughter said,  “No grandma. April showers bring May flowers.”

She was right—it’s May and flowers are blooming everywhere! It’s also time we all take a moment to smell them. We need to find the beauty and find joy where we can, as there will always be unrest. This has been a challenging year for many. The Oso mudslide, MH370, the Korean Ferry disaster, Nigerian kidnappings, kids with knives and guns, and a Tornado in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa.

We can turn on the news and find disaster everywhere, or switch to CNN and see the MH370 search. But today I say…turn off the television and read to your children in honor of Mother Goose Day.

   I’m fairly certain we all know May first was May Day. But did you also know that May first was also Loyalty Day, Save the Rhino Day, and Mother Goose Day?  May 2^nd brings Baby Day and Brother’s and Sisters Day. This year, as the first Friday in May, we also can celebrate International Tuba Day and Space Day.

So much to celebrate and so little time!

As a grandmother, pilot, and author, I’m celebrating Mother Goose Day and Baby Day by reading stories to the grandkids.

“Mother Goose Day” was founded in 1987 by author Gloria T. Delamar; at the same time she published Mother Goose; From Nursery to Literature. This day was instituted to appreciate nursery rhymes and stories. But not just Mother Goose nursery rhymes… all stories.

   I assumed the name “Mother Goose” came from the nursery rhymes. The truth is, Mother Goose is a term dating all the way back to the 1650s and referred to all children’s stories…Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, etc…any children’s book, written by a variety of authors. This is a day to read to your children.

Share the love of reading with the children in your life. Books inspire and support imagination. They take children to worlds beyond their own, and show them that anything is possible. Books create dreams and promote literacy. Any day we can find to celebrate the love of reading is a day well spent.

Join the Journey at Flight To Success: http://karlenepetitt.blogspot.com

   Enjoy the Journey!

XO Karlene

Thanks for your post, Karlene! And I agree, folks: take the time today to slow down, spend some quality time with your precious little ones, and enjoy life.

Slow down and smell the flowers.

The original Catalina Seaplanes’ “Mother Goose.”

Or, as we avgeeks might say . . .

Slow down and smell the Jet A!

And speaking of important days in May . . .

May 11 is Mother’s Day, so here’s a link to last year’s post—a tribute to Mommy Aviators, including Mrs. Karlene! http://capnaux.com/mothers-day-special-blog-n-vid-flyin-mommas/

Don’t forget the most important day this month: May 26 is Memorial Day. (My May 4 BIF guest post on Tallyone.com honors this day.)

…and, as for Cap’n Aux’s favorite Day this month, Remember, Luke: