{"id":7916,"date":"2021-02-02T23:32:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T23:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theparentsocial.com\/?p=7916"},"modified":"2022-02-01T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:31:56","slug":"finding-little-things-to-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparentsocial.com\/finding-little-things-to-celebrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Little Things to Celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last night we decided to ‘celebrate’ Imbolc<\/a>. I’d heard of it, but can’t say it’s a usual fixture on our calendar. Also called Brigid’s Day (and for Christians Candlemas), it’s a Gaelic festival, which celebrates the ‘first day of Spring’. Fire is a big part of the festival. It was enough for me to say that we’d have a fire outside and toast marshmallows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All three absolutely loved the randomness of sitting outside on a cold Monday night in February eating sweet treats they’d toasted themselves. They thanked us so many times, which was particularly gratifying seeing as it was such little effort and cost practically nothing. My eldest even read a bedtime story by firelight \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n