the gift...

Mayday is wonderful,

truly wonderful.

You know why?

It gave me the opportunity to let Max and his buddy Elijah

experience the pure joy of surprising sweet friends.

they were my 'runners',

ringing the doorbells, or knocking on doors

leaving the little pot on a table

or hanging from the doorknob

and then running back to the car

with the biggest smiles ever!

That was really the gift.

They felt so wonderful as they

surprised our friends,

and I felt pure joy from

watching them have fun.

I made the mayday baskets

a little different from the ones that

I showed in the last post.

I had some peat pots,

painted them white and 

I added something special

for each person.

A crepe paper ruffle, a special bird for our bird lover,

an old MSU creamery lid for our MSU fan,

a little color for our colorful friend...

you get the picture,

each  one different,

just like my friends.

I wish I could have made one

for all those special to me.

Do you think you all

could move into the neighborhood

before next May 1?

It was a gift week for me too..

I won Lynn's giveaway and now I have

the sweetest work of art on my dining room mantle!

(it's absolutely perfect, isn't it?)

Thank you Lynn!

Thanks for stopping by!
love, t.xoxoxoxo

Mayday is just around the corner...

We don't have many flowers in the garden yet, truth be told

we have 5 daffodils. 

5.

I am hoping that by next week we have a

few blooming branches to make a few

Mayday bouquets.

(These are from 2010... where does the time go?)

Grab some paper towel tubes and toilet paper tubes

from the recycling bin and 

make them all pretty with

spring papers, buttons, a ribbon hanger, some glitter

and well...

PUT A BIRD ON IT

and make yourself and your friends

a little vase to hang on the door!

I put a test tube inside of this one, but

if you don't have a test tube to put the flowers in,

just wrap them in wet paper towel wrapped in aluminum foil.

Nothing will bring a smile to your friends faces

more than finding a little bouquet hanging from the door!

Heck, the smile it will bring to your own face

will make it worth it!

Want another reason to smile?

Lynn from Blue Skies is having a giveaway!

There will be 3 winners ~

I threw my name in the hat, because well,

I love her, her ramblings on her blog, 

her art work is beautiful and I would love to have one for my very own!

Throw your name in the hat before Sunday

 and tell Lynn I said hello!

bring on the smile factor.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

love,

t.xoxoxoox

take good care of this moment...

Lynn over at Blue Skies is having a wonderful new linky party.

The kind that makes you reflect

on a moment in your day.

I just loved this idea, the thought of keeping a moment

in a safe place, taking good care of it.

My moment happened as I was making the advent calendar with Hannah and Max.

The Christmas Carols were playing and we each had our assigned job.

As we were finishing the calendar, I stopped to look at each of them, all caught up

in the task at hand, and thanked God again for allowing me to be their mom.

I am blessed.

my family knows that they hold the key to my heart.

It is strange some days, having only the two of them home now.

If I could, I would go back in time and relive the moments

with all 5 kids home and make sure that I was taking good care of each

and every second that we were all together.

Good or bad, each moment that we have had has given us a bond

of love that I hold dear.

Sometimes as Hannah, Max and I do a project together,

I have flashbacks of doing projects with Danielle, John and Cam.

Hannah and Max weren't old enough to make cookies with us then,

or create a new Christmas ornament, so this is their time.

The circle of life so to speak... my life anyway!

Soon we will all be together for Christmas,

and we can wear our paper party hats and celebrate

our family and all that it means to us.

O.k.... truth be told getting everyone to agree to wear a paper party hat

will not happen, so I will just imagine them wearing them.

Kinda like imagining the audience in their underwear as you give a speech!

I hope you will go and visit Lynn and read her last few posts about

taking good care of this moment.

They are so inspirational.

Thanks Lynn for the party and the reminder to stop and take it all in!

just  click on the button to take you to the party!

fa la la,

Theresa xoxo

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