Hope y’all had a nice Christmas and are looking forward to a great 2022!
One of the best things we’ve done in fixing up grandma’s old house is hire a landscape architect to work with us and come up with a master plan for the front flower beds and hardscape.
Hand sketch of our master plan for the front and sides of the house.
We recently updated our upstairs hallway sconces.
Blaine and I were gifted this book from his relatives up north a few years ago. I’m just now really appreciating it. I thought I’d share in case you need a gift idea for a new family or new parents.
It’s “Black Friday” and I’m home with our boys counting my blessings. We’re still on our pajamas and will probably keep them on all day! 🙂 I’m doing a little online shopping and thought I’d share some finds.
THE HOUSE
I arrived at 8:55am with baby George in tow and got in the back of the line. I haven’t been to a sale in a long while, especially one on Thursday where you have to take a number and wait outside to be called in. I was number 61! Thankfully everyone moved pretty quickly and we were inside within about 15-20 minutes of waiting out in the cold.
The line to get in at opening time.
Three blog posts in one week – I’m on a roll! 😀 From history.com, here is a little backstory:
Celebrations of mothers and motherhood can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who held festivals in honor of the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele, but the clearest modern precedent for Mother’s Day is the early Christian festival known as “Mothering Sunday.”
Once a major tradition in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe, this celebration fell on the fourth Sunday in Lent and was originally seen as a time when the faithful would return to their “mother church”—the main church in the vicinity of their home—for a special service.
Over time the Mothering Sunday tradition shifted into a more secular holiday, and children would present their mothers with flowers and other tokens of appreciation. This custom eventually faded in popularity before merging with the American Mother’s Day in the 1930s and 1940s.
Pretty neat, huh?! As we’ve morphed into the American way of celebrating Mother’s Day by presenting her with a gift of appreciation, I’ve gathered up a few ideas:
Locally grown peonies! Click this photo for the link to Peony Hill Farm’s new webpage. They’re usually in bloom right around Mother’s Day, depending on the weather between now and then.
