Before the snow....

I do admit, I love winter - but I just wanted to put this up for anyone looking to be inspired and hopeful for spring. Something tells me we are a little far away just yet.....happy shovelling! This pic was taken of the mountain on the other side of the Columbia River - that is part of our view from outside the back of our house. Where you see the sunshine, is where God lives. Peace to you....

Dec 27, 2004 on Dec 27, 2006

Two years ago, our daughter had celebrated her first Christmas. My, how time changes everything and also makes it more beautiful. Our little angel celebrated her third Christmas this year and delighted in Santa and the magical spirit of the season. I re-discovered the joy of the holiday through her eyes. Especially the fact that this gift only happens once: at this age, at this time. The time is NOW. She has opened my eyes to the innocence that lives in my heart once again. Thank you my beauty, for you are my Christmas gift for the rest of my days.

The countdown to Christmas is on...be kind to one another

• as you cram yourselves in 2 by 2 through department store doors on Christmas Eve....
• as someone takes the very last box of Lindt truffles from under your nose and you watch as they eat it all!
• as you pass someone on a sanded highway with one inch to spare and give someone a new windshield this holiday season....
• as you pass each other by - wish each other a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
• Be sure to stop and smell the boughs of holly :)

My Mum - I miss you at this blessed time of year

I don't know what it is..... the way the Christmas lights twinkle, much like your blue eyes did with life. Maybe it is the gentle snowflake that falls and melts away, yet we remember its beauty; just like you. Perhaps, it is the whisper in my heart, that I hear in my dreams. I miss you Mum.

Rosemarie Peirson was a woman who, through life's many turns, was as strong as she was loving. She brought up five daughters in a marriage that saw her act as both parents near the end of it. By her loving lead, she taught us independence, strength of spirit and that laughter would get you through anything in life. She was a teenager in WWII; something she rarely talked about but you could see it in her eyes - those days as a young woman in Berlin, Germany.

She doted on all of us in our time; she never compared any of us and only wanted us to be happy. We all had an amazing relationship with our mother. I prayed to God that Mum would make it to see my first child. She did, in fact, she saw her being born. She was with my little one the day of her death in October, 2005. Mum came to me in spirit about 10 minutes before my husband called to tell me she was gone. I screamed for part of my soul had left forever. When I was a baby, she held my hand until I went to sleep; I wish to feel that again sometimes.

This will be the 2nd Christmas without you Mum. You are in the curls of my daughter's hair and she echoes your independent spirit. I thank God that I had you as long as I did - you loved me without question and believed in me so much. I hope to be the mother that you were to me; to all of us.

As I hang Christmas decorations this holiday, I will think of you, look up and blow a kiss to the moon. For you are amongst the stars, shining as brightly as you did in life. I love you and will miss you always. Please, visit me in my dreams - so that for a time, I don't have to be without you.

xo
Helen

Life's little churches

I've decided what I will blog today, and perhaps often. Life's little churches. My little spiritual moments I find profound enough to share with everyone in my cyberworld.

As I drove down the winter hill from Rossland the other day, I looked beyond at the mountainscape as the sun played its afternoon dance. When I think of that moment, a voice comes to my heart and says,"Do not look at what lies ahead of you, look at what lays before you.'

If we could see our obstacles as opportunities to grow, unite and share infinite wishdom, then, perhaps we could all be a little more present in the present.

Have a good day and bless your soul for sharing kindness this holiday season.

Procrastinators Unite!

"O Christmas Tree.....O Christmas Tree...."

What a blissful day! Church this morning, an afternoon movie with hubby and then, we went to get our Christmas tree. Brought our 2-year old in the sleigh and brought the tree back home in the sleigh (hey, they did it in the 1900's!)

Here we are, December 3rd, 22 days 'til Christmas! I (sometimes we) still have to do:
- lights on the house
- the Christmas tree
- cards
- most of my shopping
- decorating the house
- uhhhh -what else?
(by the way, all of this in no particular order...)

Procrastinators Unite! Soon, it will be Christmas tonight!

MeerrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyChristmas!

Pet owners can relate....

Yep, it's that time of year....when owners like me who has two cats and a dog AND a 2 year old wonder why.....why.....why.....why......do we put up the tree just to watch everyone want to rip it apart? I love Christmas, I really do - but really, I need to invent some sort of bulletproof (aka cat/dog/baby proof) Christmas tree - I could make millions - or lose millions.

Where am I?

Wow.....it's scary from up here....wherever "here" is..... I am a blogger virgin - new to the experience and yet fantasizing what it might be like. All I can say is I am glad to be here. No one has ever said I don't like to express myself; now I just have an excuse to!

Crazy place this blog..... stay tuned for more musings from this high drama mama

ciao