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6 months and what to say about it

By Tricia on March 16, 2015 in Home, Uncategorized

Hello Friends!! Truly if you are still here and reading this, that is what I count you as.

6 months is a very long time, no? It seems much longer to me. I have really missed you all and this space. I am sorry to have left it that way and if anyone worried, please forgive me. I have cherished your messages and comments and most of all your prayers. This last 6 months have been a different season in my life. Matthew has now been my longest baby ever. He has stepped into that role very happily.

Silence is not a bad thing. It is necessary sometimes to guard it in order to guard your heart and heal. I think so often of Our Lady and how much she quietly kept in her heart during her time as a mother on Earth. She pondered everything, quietly. That is what I have been doing.

Last week I picked up my camera and put on the snow boots that have accompanied me outside this winter for walks in white covered woods. I had to get pictures of our amazing snow fall and then realized my camera was not turning on so off to the shop it went and when I picked it up, all ready to go, I knew it was time to return here.

Today, I sat outside in the sun! The sun which has not been present here for a while was there, everywhere. Accompanying me as I did a little needlework and it was glorious. I feel spring in the air and I know it is coming. Everything will be waking very soon and I am so excited to take it all in. So excited for the violets to pop up. I intend to pick every flower and make some jelly. Oh I can hardly wait. Yesterday I found some wild spring onions and I know the rest will soon follow! The chickens know it is coming. Today they are just happy to bask in the warm sun along with me. All of us await the dandelions and all their possibilities.

Today may be one of the last days that we can walk freely in our woods before spring fills all the trees and greenery which block our passage many times with briars and poison ivy. A chance to follow our creek to the end of our property and perhaps find a little inhabitant in its waters (do you see him in the picture?). Treasures and familiar pathways are ours today. It is amazing to think what a difference one week may make in the view behind our home. Even our chickens tried as much as they could to follow us deep into the woods before tiring and heading back to the creek.

What is your favorite part of the beginning of spring? I am off to do a little sewing for a certain birthday boy who knows I am working on something for him and then I will get more seeds started. So exciting. This is definitely my favorite part of the year.

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Happy Mothers Day where ever you are

By Tricia on May 12, 2014 in Family, Handmade Holidays and Celebrations, Uncategorized

Being a mother. For me it has been so many different things as the years have gone by. Wow, that makes me sound old. What I mean by that is that as mommas we all go through different seasons.

This morning, I was awoken by my beautiful blessings, one of which had been in bed with me the whole night. They asked me what I wanted to do. Of course, they already know (and you might know too if you have spent a few mothers days here with me) that I plan to spend the day in bed on every Mother’s day. Its true. I do it every year. As Poppa sprang to the kitchen with his grand breakfast plans as always, the kids sat around my bed. What do you want to do today,Momma?

I asked them to bring out the picture boxes. We spent the next hours laughing and remembering. All the days and years. The parties and the ho hum regular days that have made the weave of our life. You know what we did not remember, the messes, the tears, the problems. All we remembered were all the wonderful things.

If you are a momma with a lot of little ones today. My post today is for you. If you feel like the weight on your shoulders is so heavy or that you have so much to do and no time for yourself. If you are surrounded by many children who have not yet reached the age where they can be helpful in a way that takes some of that burden off of your shoulders. Momma, I promise you today that someday, you will look back on these days with affection. I have been there.

I have been that momma who looks lost at the grocery store surrounded by all her little blessings. I have been that momma who just realized its time for bed, and I never had the chance to take a shower. I have had 5 children under 7 with 3 in diapers. Oh momma, I have. I know where you are. I promise you, it does get so much easier…. and harder.

Everyone will tell you how hard it will be to raise those little ones. But no one, will tell you how hard it is to let them go.

As I celebrate my second mothers day without Alexandra living under our roof, I will tell you that it is a lot harder than cleaning up the messes or keeping up with all the appointments on the calendar. So much harder than all the lessons to get to or schleping children from soccer to field trips and even harder than the mountain of laundry that is a constant in our lives.

Today, no matter where you are in your motherhood. Stop to look around. Today will be the good old days that you yearn for later on. I promise.

So to all the mommas out there. Those whose children were born in their bodies and those whose children were born in their hearts. Those who are treading water and those who have already reached the life raft. Thank you for sharing in my season as a mother through my little blog and I wish you all the very best Mother’s Day, where ever you are.

Sorry for the blurriness of these following pics but that trip down memory lane this morning left me with some pics I wanted to preserve here.

John Paul and I 2004
on a road trip 2002