THIS 'N THAT
Well another weekend is here, and another week closer to Christmas! I just read on Patty's blog that they got some snow down in Calgary, just a few hours south of us in Edmonton. I'm thinking it will probably not be long before we get it too...... it's been a nice October/November really. We could have had a ton of the white stuff for awhile now ~ it happens now and then! Anyway Patty was talking about how icy it was....and that is really the worst thing about winter for me. Without the icy stuff that comes sometimes, the rest of the winter season I love. Especially for Christmas!! 
In the last 2 days, two of my friends have posted about birthdays..... one has a niece and the other a daughter, who are both turning 20 yrs. old.
Holy schmoly, believe it or not, I can actually remember back to my 20th. birthday too! (yes peeps, she does still have the odd memory cell kicking around in that space between her ears...) I remember I was single, and had been living here in Edmonton with my older sister Linda for a year and a half. My mom and dad and two younger sisters still at home, were living in B.C., as my dad had finally retired from the Airforce the year before. I remember feeling really lonely for them, and wishing I could be with them for my birthday. That Christmas though, my sister Linda and I took the train from Edmonton up to northern B.C. to spend the holidays with them. Okay I have to leave this topic now....
LOL...... it's too close to Christmas and I'm missing them!! Anyway, I just wanted to say that hearing about these two young women turning 20 made me think " I could be their grandmother!!!!" (mind you, I'd have had to be 16 when I had their mothers) But still, it's possible, right??
On Sunday, I'm going to what we normally know as a "baby shower". It's for my sweet friend Crystal, whose name is Crystal Joy and I call her "C.J." Apparently I'm the only one she allows to call her that, LOL.
Anyway, this one is called a "Mother Blessing" party, and it's really different, and wonderful! This is C.J.'s first baby, and her mother is no longer with us. So she invited her older sisters who are mothers, and her close friends who are mothers, or who are a support in her life. I guess that's the category I fall in! Anyway, each of us is bringing either a poem, or prayer, and a bead. Any kind of bead or stone, that has a hole to make it into a bracelet. So some of you who know me, know how much I love stones and crystals, and have so many of my own, all for their different properties for healing or whatever. I picked out a few stones and did "my thing" with them (cleansing and programming them) just for C.J. And what she's going to do is wear that bracelet that we've made for her with all our love and support in it, when she's in labour and having her baby. I chose 2 stones: one is an amethyst, and the other is an aventurine (pale green) and I also had a little silver heart that I'm adding to it too. And then, I wrote her a verse to read and to keep, it's actually a prayer. It's about how she's carried inside her all her life a "child", her inner child, and now she is carrying another child....... anyway it asks for God's guidance into Motherhood for C.J. and His guidance for her little one..... I printed it out and scanned a picture of 2 little angels on the paper. And we're each bringing a snack, so I just made some chocolate chip raisin cookies today to take. So I'm looking forward to seeing what else the other ladies are bringing or doing. Interesting huh?
Not much else to report, I hope you all have a safe and happy weekend, and we'll catch up again soon! I'd like to leave you with a sweet little quote that my friend Mae gave me once........
"Like Flowers on a windowsill, the human spirit leans
toward the sunshine of freedom, for that is where
we bloom the best".....
Peace to you all,
Love Jude
In the last 2 days, two of my friends have posted about birthdays..... one has a niece and the other a daughter, who are both turning 20 yrs. old.
Holy schmoly, believe it or not, I can actually remember back to my 20th. birthday too! (yes peeps, she does still have the odd memory cell kicking around in that space between her ears...) I remember I was single, and had been living here in Edmonton with my older sister Linda for a year and a half. My mom and dad and two younger sisters still at home, were living in B.C., as my dad had finally retired from the Airforce the year before. I remember feeling really lonely for them, and wishing I could be with them for my birthday. That Christmas though, my sister Linda and I took the train from Edmonton up to northern B.C. to spend the holidays with them. Okay I have to leave this topic now....
LOL...... it's too close to Christmas and I'm missing them!! Anyway, I just wanted to say that hearing about these two young women turning 20 made me think " I could be their grandmother!!!!" (mind you, I'd have had to be 16 when I had their mothers) But still, it's possible, right??
On Sunday, I'm going to what we normally know as a "baby shower". It's for my sweet friend Crystal, whose name is Crystal Joy and I call her "C.J." Apparently I'm the only one she allows to call her that, LOL.
Anyway, this one is called a "Mother Blessing" party, and it's really different, and wonderful! This is C.J.'s first baby, and her mother is no longer with us. So she invited her older sisters who are mothers, and her close friends who are mothers, or who are a support in her life. I guess that's the category I fall in! Anyway, each of us is bringing either a poem, or prayer, and a bead. Any kind of bead or stone, that has a hole to make it into a bracelet. So some of you who know me, know how much I love stones and crystals, and have so many of my own, all for their different properties for healing or whatever. I picked out a few stones and did "my thing" with them (cleansing and programming them) just for C.J. And what she's going to do is wear that bracelet that we've made for her with all our love and support in it, when she's in labour and having her baby. I chose 2 stones: one is an amethyst, and the other is an aventurine (pale green) and I also had a little silver heart that I'm adding to it too. And then, I wrote her a verse to read and to keep, it's actually a prayer. It's about how she's carried inside her all her life a "child", her inner child, and now she is carrying another child....... anyway it asks for God's guidance into Motherhood for C.J. and His guidance for her little one..... I printed it out and scanned a picture of 2 little angels on the paper. And we're each bringing a snack, so I just made some chocolate chip raisin cookies today to take. So I'm looking forward to seeing what else the other ladies are bringing or doing. Interesting huh?
Not much else to report, I hope you all have a safe and happy weekend, and we'll catch up again soon! I'd like to leave you with a sweet little quote that my friend Mae gave me once........
"Like Flowers on a windowsill, the human spirit leans
toward the sunshine of freedom, for that is where
we bloom the best".....
Peace to you all,
Love Jude
posted by Jude at Friday, November 19, 2004
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