A Cup of May!!

Happy Mothers Day!  Happy Cinco de Mayo!! This post is dedicated to all things May.

.. I love May.. everything is in full bloom.. the birds are chirping the flowers are blossoming.. everything is opening up again. Go out and expierance May ... Here are a few of May events and openings I have had the pleasure of attending and I also had the chance to learn more  "Knowledge is Power" and stumble apon an unexpected coffee house. Enjoy May!!

  I attended the Planned Parenthood  of West and Northern Michigan, Inc. Healthy Families Luncheon 2011 at Fredrick Meijers Gardens http://www.fredrickmeijergardens.com/ on Thursday May 5,2011. It was a very delightful and enlightning luncheon... I was invited by my dear friend Maureen Schuurman who is on the event committee. We had an enjoyable lunch ( I loved the ice tea) and the speakers did a wonderful job talking about the message of Planned  Parenthood .. but I was impressed with the peronal story from Stacy and Ellie Grossman .. a mother and daughter who personally advocated to change comprehensive sex education in their high school.
  As I looked down at the phamplet next to my plate I got goosebumps. it read "Knowledge is Power" Become an informed  Advocate for Reproductive Health Care and Comprehensive Sex Education. Thats when I knew i had to write about this on my blog .. for that is my message as well " Knowledge is Power" I truly belive that...  
For more information go to  http://www.ppwnm.org/
After lunch I stayed and experianced the http://www.frederikmeijergardens.com/ and Sculpture park.Its a lovely place you will see the amazing pictures....
 As my day went on I began to notice sighns of all things May...it was Cinco de Mayo day... The tulip festival in Holland runs thru May 17.. The Farmers Market on Fulton Street is now open... May till Christmas.
  In the early evening I attend my two nephews Lacrosse games. William Tyler ( a senior) and William Spencer (a freshman) both at Catholic Central. The game was at Aquinas College.. a small but beatiful campus ... a great place to watch a lacrosse game.. as I walked around the timelss campus I stunbled apon a campus coffee house.. nestled in the woods... The Moose Cafe coffee house ... it was the quaintest little coffee house ... a place for the students to study and hang out... I had the choclate coffee ..I have never had choclate coffee before but it was unexpectionly good as well as my coffee house find.

  I will sighn off now ... Have a wonderful Mothers day!!  And look for all things May ... its  a New Beginning!!!