Making Fairy Houses With Our Mom

Where do I even begin! I have been sick as I said and it has felt like it dragged on a long while. I am finally really starting to feel better. It is so awesome!!! None of the children are seriously sick right now and so it feels like things are looking up :) I had felt like I really needed something to help me feel happy inside. I felt like that would make all the difference in being strong enough to kick this sickness. It had such a deep grip and I could not shake it. I felt discouraged and exhausted and was begging for sunshine!!! I couldn't think of something to do that would make me feel really happy. I think I was just too sick. Thankfully my mom's birthday had been coming up and before I even got sick I had planned this day with my mom and sister's. We all met at my sister's house. She lives in Richmond. We had this sort of magical plan we had come up with and yesterday we lived the plan. It was what I needed. It nourished me and nurtured me and helped me feel like there was hope just peeking around the corner.
So we started the day by driving to Richmond. My sister had this little sign on her door. It was so thoughtful.

 


After we all arrived (with the exception of one sister who was too ill to join) we went straight to the beach BECAUSE, miracle of miracles, the sun was SHINING!! After a rather harrowing drive there because as my sister says, she is a RICHMOND driver (whatever that means), we roamed the beach looking for driftwood and soaking in the sun AND doing little photo shoots. It was fun and cold but warm and perfect.

After we picked up copious amounts of driftwood and curly bark and other treasures we started doing little photo shoots

 So after soaking up as much sun as we could we headed back to my sisters for tea.

 After feasting on really yummy and healthy delights we got busy doing something we had never done before. It was so fun (and complicated) and amazing. We made little fairy habitats out of all sorts of treasures we had collected. We needed hammers, nails, drills, screws, glue guns, shells, driftwood, bark, pine cones, moss and the list really was quite exhaustive. We chose this because my mom is a lover of all things whimsical, fanciful and beautiful. We thought she would love this; and she did. We each made something totally different and hers was the most impressive by far. We had such fun and I think we all felt little again. It was something we will always remember.

                           
                                       This one wasn't done but the shape of it is so beautiful.

                                             This one is not finished either. Isn't it so cute!!!

 I love the shape on the actual bark and the blue sparkly door and adorable ladder on this one. Each one was so unique!

                   This one is my mom's. It is an actual house. It is amazing and totally adorable.

Happy birthday to my mother. She has taught us to love and cherish so many beautiful, precious and special little things ~ we are so thankful for that in our lives  as we have each carried that on in our own way ~