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Snow. It rarely happens, so looking out the window last night and seeing a couple of inches brought about feelings of pure joy inside. Each winter I miss my Midwest roots even while I hold the gratitude of never needing to shovel or drive in it anymore. Having it stick around all day today when we had no where to go was awesome.
While Ellie was sitting on Jon's lap while watching the Olympics yesterday, this conversation happened:
Ellie: "Valentine's Day is a season of family."
Jon: "Did you make that up or did someone tell you that?"
Ellie: "No one told me and I did not make it up. Valentine's Day is a season of family!"
Me (softly to myself): "That was awesome."
The days leading up to Valentine's Day have been busy ones for my shop, and I'm deeply grateful. From parents sending daughters away at college little reminders that they are loved to so many beautiful souls buying the kindred necklace set with the intention of keeping one and giving the other to their dear soul friends to sisters giving their siblings sets of talismans, my heart is honestly smiling.
In the midst of it all, Ellie's had an on-again off-again fever that has her going from leaning against me almost asleep to running around with endless energy with hardly a breath between. Intense. Lots of crafting and reading and watching movies and cuddling while she sleeps on me and forgiving myself when I lose it a wee bit and breathing deeply. (And yes, I did let her go outside for a few minutes because she was feeling better and, hello, snow! Because she has only been in it once before, her version of "playing" is "Mama, I must clean the snow off of all the furniture in the backyard." I had to stop her from moving on to cleaning it off the plants.)
And in the inbetween spaces, I'm working on something new that has me so darn excited. Like oh my goodness this is really going to happen excited. I'm feeling plugged in to the reasons why I'm here and what I want to share with you. And in this moment, I'm pausing right here as Jon reads to Ellie down the hall and I'm bringing my hands to my heart and taking five deep breaths saying softly to myself, "Just keep showing up as you and those who get it will come along and stand beside you. Yes."
Sending love and light,
Liz
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Reader Comments (7)
"Just keep showing up as you and those who get it will come along and stand beside you."- love this so much! needed to hear it so much!
"Snow is the fairy dust of winter." (Albert Einstein). I'm glad you let your little one out to play with the winter fairies! (This sentiment is probably more lovely for those of us who seldom have snow in winter!)
Wonderful post. Beautiful. And excited to hear about what you have planned or are working on. Hope you share soon. Enjoy the snow. Wish it would stop here. We are close to 50inches and going strong. Michelle t
Getting outside, snow or no snow, isn't a bad thing even when sick. In fact might even be a good thing during this too much inside time of year.
Also, love the quote Wendy D shared. Wonder if it will appease my daughter who has been pouting about limited fairy house building opportunities.
You are so cute...I just Luv ya! You make me smile...:)
Oh my goodness. That top photo of Ellie in the snow. Love.
awwww...i love this.
and fresh air helps! i wish i could send you some of my snow...they are calling for another 40 cms this weekend...blah.
and i am excited to hear what you are working on although a part of me thought...could it be a retreat in canada, in pei, the land of anne?
heeheehee....