It always amazes me the what happens when we hear folktales, especially ones with songs as part of the story. The stories may seem simple but somehow children hear the deeper truths. Would that I could hear them so easily!

The story, Snow Buntings Lullabye, is from Siberia and it is an old tale. (Margaret Read MacDonald  collected this tale and retold it in her book  Tuck Me in Tales.) Yet when the audience hears the song the Daddy and Mommy Bird sing to their baby, you can just feel them sink into the music. Parents hold their children a little bit tighter, kids do the same back to their parents. The kids know...this is what they want and need...this love from their parents.

For this time, we are all connected somehow, storyteller with audience, audience with each other. Wouldn't it be lovely for all of us to be wrapped in the lullabye of someone we love and who loves us.

We could make this happen!!!! Write and tell me about your experiences wrapping your famiy up in lullabyes