Mother’s Day (past & present)

A few pictures of Mother’s Days, past & present:

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A few “random thoughts” about them…

I’ve been privileged to celebrate 14 years of Mother’s Days as mother to Kanan Phoenix. AKA Ven, AKA The Phoenix, AKA kiddo….he’s such a character!  See us being goofy?  :)  Naw, we’re not related…

It’s impossible to talk about Mother’s Day without thinking of all the “mother’s” in my life…most have passed on now, but at one point, we had FIVE generations alive!   Now my mom is the Matriarch at a very young age, but when Kanan was young, both her mother & her mother’s mother were alive & well! Kanan used to say (when he was little, of course) that he “had 5 families”.

Just five Mother’s Days ago, I was mere days away from giving birth to twins, as a surrogate mother.  See the giant belly with the plate of food resting on it?  See the heart, that is an artsy rendition of my hands forming a heart around my VERY stretched out belly button during that pregnancy.

See my grandmother on my dad’s side?  This picture is Maravilla Gardens, my sister, Kirstin & I took her for a Mother’s Day Tea… it was a gorgeous day… turns out, it was her last one, she passed away that same year, in the fall.

And then there’s my mother.  She & dad came to spend the day and get to know my girls (the chickens) for the first time.  We had a lovely relaxing day while Joe took the Rooster Garden garden ornament that Kanan bought me for my Mother’s Day gift and turned it into a weather vane-type thing to put on top of the Chicken Condo!  See it?  Isn’t it gorgeous?  Casa de los Huevos is what we christened the coop, which really fits us because our house is Casa de Tocino (Bacon).

Mother’s Day = Love & Family

Hope there are many more to come!

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