Touching Moments – Writing Inspiration

This week begins the first weekly writing inspiration. If you are planning on joining in and want us to see your work, please feel free to leave a comment with a link to your post or with a bit of your writing. This week’s topic is Touching Moments… it will mean something different to every single person who sees that prompt. Write about one moment…what you feel, what moves you, why it moves you and how it moves you.

Atmospheric Change

The day was dark and dismal, much like any other day in our area but there was a sense of something to come, something bigger than ourselves, something unexpected. When the children returned from school that day, the feeling persisted… looming and keeping my clan of normally rather unruly boys oddly quiet and whispery.

As the thunder began to peal in the background complete with the eerie strikes of lightning, the quiet was palpable. The power went out soon after the storm began.

Since we live in an area where storms aren’t likely to be dangerous, children typically learn at a fairly early age not to fear thunder and lightning. There is definitely still a certain awe that permeates the air when such magnificent feats of nature display themselves for my children to experience, but not fear.

The littlest of my children still haven’t quite moved past the initial anxiety surrounding a storm, so sensing their unrest it isn’t uncommon to see the older ones buddy up with them to play a game, draw on paper or tell a story.

It is an amazing thing to witness from my perspective as mom… since they don’t normally interact a lot the older boys and the younger boys. This sense of comeraderie that seems to be felt from the teens remembering what it was like to be little themselves and feeling that fear again in the eyes of their little brothers.

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Stopping to Smell the Flowers

I can’t begin to recall how many times I have received a hand picked boquet of Dandelions that have been presented by a sweet little boy with the sweetest little smile on his face. My reaction to said boquet has always been… well… not so enthusiastic.

I detest Dandelions with all my being. I have all but shunned their very existence, especially when the nasty things are brought into my house. So when a sweet little boy delivers a bouquet of them, my immediate reaction is and always has been, “thank you sweetie, can we keep these outside though?”.

So when I got the adorable project featured to the right here, complete with Dandelion Poem. And I saw his adorable cuteness, holding a bouquet of the aforementioned detested weeds, I found myself taken back.

It didn’t just make me stop and think, it all but made me kick myself in the rear for all my mistreatment of those precious Dandelion bouquets. Suffice it to say, there were tears involved on my part, and a commitment made to never again shun said bouquets. {Continue reading…}

Scentsy

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In my pre-child life, I loved to have candles all around my house.  I loved how they smell, I loved how they looked, and I liked that I could add a little design flare to my house with different holders and colors. Enter children.  And there went my candles.  (Along with all of my other [...]

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Spring Soiree with Cascade Ice

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A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a very fun Spring Soiree put on by Cascade Ice and hosted at Mane Blow Dry Bar in Seattle. This was a very fun event and surprisingly educational. Although I showed up at Mane being very familiar with Cascade Ice, I learned two things – [...]

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Mother’s Day Tea Gift

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Mother’s Day is oh-so-close at hand! Many of us are either scrambling for last minute gifts or totally blanking on any ideas for what to get mom this year to make it special. Today, I’d like to share a little gift idea I created for the moms in my life. The Gift I love to [...]

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Smile, Baby, Smile!

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A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of holding a MAM “Smile, Baby, Smile” party.  In conjunction with MAM and Child’s Play Communications, I was able to have a whole bunch of my mommy friends over for some fun while we learned about how to get our little one’s off to the right start [...]

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