Memorial Day

My cute Mama helped us all enjoy Memorial Day–year after year–for all the right reasons. This year, my babies and their babies found many of the sames things to love about the day…and we discovered a few new ones of our own.

On this Memorial Day 2011– I positively loved…

the ridiculous brand new snow on the foothills–one day before June…

the people who matter most to me–the ones right here, and the ones just a breath away….

the beautiful flowers…always, always–the beautiful flowers…

the ones who love this day along with me…

the sharing among friends…

the tender moments that help little ones know who they really are…

the rain that fell just as we were leaving…

the hail that fell just as the rain was leaving…

the beautiful idea that there is a day such as this, set aside…

to remember.

Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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This Day…

“I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day.  I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it.  We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.”

~Benjamin Harrison

Happy Memorial Day my friends!

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{A Simple Smile}

“We cannot underestimate the healing power that our loving expressions and our warm smiles can impart. We do not really even need to speak. In and of themselves, smiles and loving light in the eyes have their own healing power. They enter the non-verbal receptors of those who receive them and do small miracles to their souls.”

– M. Catherine Thomas

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{ Parent Love }

“Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill.”

Ezra Taft Benson

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Treasure Hunting

In order to have everything ready for the Spring Quilt Market which begins in a couple of days–April and I thought it might be a good idea to go…

on an antique hunt.

What fun it was to wander around finding treasures at every turn. This door knob–for instance, is the very kind that were on all the inside doors of our house in L.A. where I grew up.

Alarm clocks–the kind that you have wind…

old, non-identifiable building tools…

rolling pins…

hand crocheted doilies…

glass jewelry keepers…

and my personal favorite–this hanging birdcage.

I can’t help wondering about all these pretty things and the adventures they’ve known…

the places they’ve been…

and the lives they’ve touched.

Who were their owners and how did they feel about their world…

and what do you suppose they would think of ours?

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