It's MAY DAY

Memories of childhood and being the mother of 2 sons revives the memory of  fun filled  May Day.

Grandparents and neighbors use to give little tokens of love by some homemade paper box, cone or basket, filled with homemade goodies. In most cases you leave the little token and run away. No one really knows who left the little goodies.

When my sons were growing up, in our new neighborhood, May 1st started very early in the AM our doorbell would be ringing...go to look and no one...to my amazement when leaving for the day, our front steps were filled with assortments of goodies. One for each of the boys, decorated cups of popcorn, little paper decorated sacks of homemade cookies, baskets of little goodies and sometimes (I know it was my across the street neighbor) a basket of flowers for your home. As they got bigger, a week before we shared craft time making our containers and figuring out who they were going to surprise.

Here are a few pictures from Pinterest to rekindle the fun.

 Made from little nut cups and covered with crepe paper. This was the 50's era of what we made when I was a child

 I have several of these from little treasure hunts, my grandmother had a few of them

 This was used before the 40's, Paper plate filled with flowers and tied with a ribbon, How cute

 Kinda how my neighbor made me feel like someone cared

 This was always a favorite of my sons , cupcakes or homemade cookies, no doubt from the same neighbor

                            http://thealexandersut.blogspot.com/2010/04/may-baskets-for-you.html?m=1

                                                                A Cheerful little Cone

The May Pole still goes on in Amana, Iowa   http://www.festivalsinamana.com/maifest.html   with a big festival for all to attend.  I sure hope they don't have HAIL and SNOW., but are blessed with SUNSHINE and FLOWERS.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the photos.