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May 12, 2018

Happy (Mother's Day) Weekend, my friends.

Each May, for many years now, I've enjoyed a day with a friend attending the annual St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. It's become a tradition, one of my favorite days of each year. And yesterday was the day. Catch my Instagram story for more photos and fun from this event - remember, the story lives for just 24 hours, so it'll disappear some time this evening. (Click on the circle photo of my portrait to go to the story portion.)

Do you follow Ann Voskamp, read her beautiful insight and shared wisdom? I loved her latest post, shifting the idea of being appreciated on Mother's Day to being simply grateful to love the people in our life. Here's an excerpt:

"Maybe… Mother’s Day is less about being deeply loved and appreciated—and more about appreciating that we just get to deeply love these people.

Maybe every year needs one day to live wide-awake to celebrate that we get to call these people ours, that we get to be the one who gets seconds and minutes and hours and days and maybe even years — to witness the wonder of them.

For as long as they’re here.

When we know we only get so much time — all our sacrifices are made into gifts that we get.

When expectations shift from wanting to be loved — to being the luckiest to get to love — we can always expect to get what we want most: joy.

Getting to love — is getting the best gift of all."

Thank you so much for joining me here each week, for reading the blog, and for following along on social media. I am so grateful for your company.

Have a beautiful weekend,
-Brenda