Easter cloches

 

Saying NO, so you can say YES

Every year there are Easter dresses, and before, when there were boys, it was fresh Sunday Khakis, and spring colored Polos. Some years the dresses came from a pretty dress shop, and more recently I smocked them myself. It is tradition. My Mom made dresses for me, and I for mine.

This year, I had them planned. I bought the fabric months ago, lilac cotton with smocked clover for Liza, and eyelet over lilac shift for Haven. But spring came early on this Island, and procrastination won. I lost my glasses, and my ever returning stiff neck makes sewing hard, and all of the sudden, it was Easter week!

I knew I could do it, every afternoon I could smock, stay up late and sew, while Liza repeated math facts and read from her primer I could hem. I new I could make it happen, and in my heart I wanted it. I wanted Easter morning to bring, new dresses on their backs, baskets in their hands,  and smiles on their faces. It was tradition.

So the NO's began. no we can't go to the pool, no we can't go on a bike ride, no we can't have a picnic, no we can't color eggs, read that book, walk the dog together, do a puzzle, play a game, watch a movie, go there, do this, NO NO NO. and I felt myself tighten like a top with the weight of not being able to say yes, and still do the dresses.

They didn't need dresses.

I sat them down, and I said

"look deep into Mamma's eyes",

and four big brown eyes looked up from the step where they sat waiting for the big something momma was going to say.

"I can make your new Easter dresses. I want to make your new Easter dresses, but if I do, I will have to work on them from now until Saturday night, and there will be more NO's, and less YES's until after Easter."

"Or" I continued,

"you can wear last years dresses"

(I had to swallow hard at this point, because a big part of me really wanted to make those dresses happen),

"and we can spend more time saying YES this week".

They didn't even hesitate, they new what they wanted.

I was really sad inside.

It is hard to let go sometimes.

Then Liza said,

"can we color eggs now Momma?",

and I said "YES".

I was really happy inside.

It is nice to let go sometimes.

Spring, Summer, Winter, or Fall

The Calendar says it is Spring.

It feels like Summer.

It looks like Fall.

I hope Winter isn't right around the corner!

Holga-ish

I am LOVING the new Holga-ish option on Picasa. have you tried it yet?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 more miles down, for a total of 9,  91 miles to go by the end of April.

Finders keepers

Guess who found an Alexander Hamilton in the bushes while she was walking the dog!

It made me think about what else we have found.

Kartwright found some Oakleys in the ocean a few years back, and they weren’t even all that scratched up. I blogged about it here.

Haven found a really nice DSLR camera case on the road when she was riding her bike a few weeks ago. We let it hang on the mailbox a few days, but no one claimed it.

My brother-in-law once found a diamond ring when he was in high school!
Michael tells a story about finding musket balls from the civil war when he was a boy, and lived in Atlanta, when they were building an addition to the Piedmont Hospital. I think my boys found some old civil war stuff on the site of Habersham in Beaufort SC when they were boys too.

Have you ever found anything fun?

4 more miles for me, for a total of 6, 94 more to go :)

Who's with me?

Happy April!

Can you believe that we are already one fourth of the way through 2012??!!

UNBELIEVABLE!!

Get ready April, I have BIG plans for you!

 

The Bible in 90 days

I will read, listen, sing,

whatever it takes, 

the entire bible in 90 days!

By July I will be ready to do it again.

Who wants to join me?

Come on, you will LOVE it, and the new APPS for your phone make it super easy, or you can download the podcast on to your i-pod, or you can do it the old fashion way, and READ.



 

100 miles

I will run, walk, ride, swim,

heck, I'll crawl if I have to,

100 miles in April.

Who wants to join me?

Come on, it will be fun.

Lets make April count people,
moving and listening,
shrinking and growing,
all together,

Who's with me?

2 miles down for me today, 98 to go,
I'm on the move!

COURAGE!