Happy Friday! I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that it’s Mother’s Day this weekend. These months are slipping away and soon summer will be in full swing. As I was thinking about the day to celebrate maternal figures in our lives, I stumbled across a package that my father-in-law had sent me a few weeks ago. M’s grandmother (ergo my father-in-law’s mother) is not doing well – this saddens us greatly, but she is also over 90 years old, and has led a remarkably full life. I hope to live a life as full as hers. And time — for better or for worse — inevitably marches on.
She has a large collection of brooches and pretty compacts and the package contained many. K loves them, and particularly loved that the compacts still contained make-up (I didn’t let her use any). The sparkling gems, the fancy cases, the small puffs, the powdery scent; these little keepsakes are filled with old memories. I am so grateful we have them.
And this delicate embroidered handkerchief is the handiwork of K’s great-great-grandmother. I find its simplicity beautiful. According to my father-in-law, it was stitched around 1900, when great-great-grandma Iuella (isn’t that a great name?) was a teenager – amazing:
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K came home excited yesterday and told me that she wrote me a couple of poems for Mother’s Day, but shhhhh, they’re still a secret. Then she proceeded to recite them:
Poem #1
I love my mother
Because I don’t have another
I’m going to Peru
She’s coming too
Why did she go?
Because I’m too slow
Poem #2
M=My mom sews me
O=Outfits to wear
M=Mama is beautiful
I love them.
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Don’t forget that the giveaway is still open until 5pm today – the comments are fabulous, and I am having such a great time reading about everyone’s dream jobs (or non-jobs in some cases)! Have a beautiful weekend, my friends! A haiku:
Happy Mother’s Day
To all you awesome mamas
pamper yourselves, ‘kay?
I love her last poem! I hope you have a fanatic, and relaxing, mother’s day!
Thanks, and a happy Mother’s Day to you as well, Katie!
you’re so lucky to have such beautiful treasures from your husbands family! that embroidery is exquisite. I can’t even imagine having the time/patience/skill to create something like that (let alone using it!).
They are treasures, indeed! It really makes you realize the evolution of times, doesn’t it? Imagine our ipad/social media savvy teens of today embroidering something like that (though maybe there are teens like that today? I hope so…).
I’m so sad to hear about your MIL. Over 90?! Wow… I pray I can make it to 50. The broaches and compacts are exquisite and the handkerchief is just amazing. The detail and patience put into it at such a young age… I don’t think I can do it at my age. What an honor to have these treasures, Sanae.
I love K’s poems… happy mother’s day!!!!
Happy Mama’s Day to you too, Venus! I doubt I’ll make it to 90+ (though you never know) but K’s got the DNA so longevity is in the cards for her. I’m also amazed that a teenager had the patience for such intricate embroidery – I really love that handkerchief and want to get it framed.
Beautiful treasures Sanae! the broaches, compacts and K’s poems. Happy mother’s day! and have a nice weekend.
Treasures, indeed! Hope you have a wonderful Mother’s Day too, Maria!
That K is going to be a writer like her mother!
Happy Mother’s Day, Sanae:)
Ha! So kind of you, Lucinda – I think K has far more natural talent than I do