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Because I care for you and love to provide you with meaningful content, I give you this as a pure gift.   Circa 1992 when Caiti-bug was a baby and I had the Dorothy Hamill.

You’re welcome.
Now onto, more Mother’s Day antics.

My request was simple.  I wanted to go to the park and make homeade ice-cream and watch the kids throw balls.

So we did.   It was good clean simple fun despite the fact that the ‘ice-cream’ was more like thin milkshake consistency.   You can’t have it all.

It was fun to have the kids together.

Caiti-bug was in charge of keeping ice in the ice-cream maker.

And I did alot of this.

Large giant red flower compliments of Emerson Made.

Today, roof trusses will be set and I will be there to document it all for you.

Darlene and I are working on the design/lay out for my living room so link your favorite living room inspiration pics.  I’m new to Pinterest but I’m finding lots of inspiration there!

Also, if you haven’t begun your One King’s Lane addiction, let me invite you to join.   OKL is a home decor sight that partners with great companies and brands to bring you quality products at a fraction of the normal price.  If you click here to sign up, you’ll get daily emails with their deals.  If you purchase something,  whoever you sign up ‘under’ gets a $25 credit.   So far, y’all have helped me buy two wonderful prints that I just received this week!  THen if you send the link to others, you will get credit if they make a purchase.  It’s so much fun!  I converted my sister to One King’s Lane and Goodwill on the same day.   Now THAT is pretty awesome.

Thank you for the shell prints!

I still plan to show the design process with the girls’ room and I have a slew of Caiti’s prom pictures to show you and I’m currently reading Grace Upon Grace by John Kleinig, which I’d love to discuss soon.  So much going on, so little time.

xo,

edie

Someone  (ahem, I won’t mention any names but she loves Loretta Lynn and knows all the lyrics to ‘Satin Sheets’) had the bright idea that we should go spend Mother’s Day in the mountains with Grannie (my dear mother whom we’ve called Grannie since I was in high school).

Steve and I have a 40 acre farm in the Clinch Mountains that we (insert Steve) turned into a little slice of heaven by building a 2 acre lake on an area of wetlands that was home to 7 natural springs.  We then built a cottage by the lake and spent many a weekend there when our kids were smaller.  As the kids grew, we found it harder and harder to make the hours’  drive for weekends away.

Then a few years ago our slice of Eden was ransacked.  Everything was taken except the ‘Count Your Blessings’ sign.  We were sure we’d be forced to sell it until Grannie and Gary decided to retire and make it their home.   They love it there and we are thankful that they can enjoy it and care for it.   Spending the weekend back on Sweet Creek  made me miss it terribly though.

This land has soul.  Have you ever been on land like that?  It’s just the neatest thing.

The air is cool, the wild life is fascinating and the mornings on the mountain will have you whistling dixie.     Steve stocked the lake, very strategically over many months, with bluegill, small mouth bass, walleye, grass carp and koi—-so it’s  a great place to fish and actually catch something!   We took our kiddos and enjoyed every minute of the country life, four wheelers and all.  It was a memorable Mother’s Day in the mountains.

I feel refreshed and ready to tackle the week.

The sis’ and the Grannie—-the best company in the world.

We loved watching the Eastern bluebirds fight the tree swallows for the martin house.   After a very brief  lesson on aperture and shutter speed, my sister turned her camera to manual and took some amazing photos.   The bluebird in flight is my favorite!

Marlea caught 5 five fish!!

J.R.  and Nick were our token men and were just dandy to have around.   They dug the worms and took the fish off  the line and just in general took perfect care of the ladies.  Shea-bug is just about the cutest little thing I’ve ever laid my eyes on.  And sassy with a capital SASS.  I took 47 pictures of  her eating a cupcake.

And see what I mean about the mornings?  {Big sigh.}

Stay tuned for part 2 tomorrow and I hope you were reminded today how special you are.  You are doing sacred eternal work with those babies.   May God richly bless you for it.