Five Beautiful Blessings Between Heaven & Earth

Tonight Dusty was downstairs, the children were in bed sleeping (or at least they were supposed to be!) and I was sitting on my bed writing in my Journal. And of course the tears were flowing. They always do when I write in my Journal. I was so lost in my own thoughts and feelings I almost didn't hear it the first time. From the darkness in Aaron room it came again. "Mommy?" sniff sniff "Yes Aaron?" "Mommy can I get you the tissues?" Silence. More tears. "No Aaron I think I'm OK' but thank you sweetie." "Are you sure Mommy? Cuz it sounds like you might needs some tissues." "No Aaron I'm OK but thank you for taking such good care of Mommy. Now go to sleep please it's late." " Ok Mommy" I have said it so many times since we lost Baby Colette and I'm saying it again. How grateful I am for my Aaron and my Bridgett. How I could have made it through this trial with out them to love, an...

A few weeks ago I started to feel like I wanted/needed to write a story for my Aaron and Bridgett so that they could remember their Sister Colette. While it is a simple story, it took me several days of working on it to write. I knew it needed to be the right mixture of sadness and happiness and finding that balance was a challenge for me. I didn't want there to be to many details but I did want them to be able to look back and see what happened. Now I just need to find someone who can draw! I want to turn it into a hard back book for them. But sadly I lack the ability to make the pages come to life with illustrations. Once Upon A Time... By Julia S. Chadwick Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, but not as far as you would think, lived a Royal Family. In this Royal Family there was a King, a Queen, a handsome young Prince and a beautiful little Princess. All was well with the Royal Family. Then, one day, the King and the Queen began to feel their family was missin...

Today I saw a quote. It said "Life is not waiting for the storm to pass it's about learning to dance in the rain." And it's true. It feels like the challenge of learning to go on after loosing Colette is a huge storm that may never pass. At least not completely. So for now, our whole family is attempting to learn to dance in the rain and through the tears.

On Jan 24th our beautiful daughter Colette Eliza Chadwick was born, I know I'm a bit behind on my blogging as today is Feb 18th but I've finally been able to get her story written, and while it is very personal I share this story with all my family with the hopes that you too will be able to know what a beautiful spirit she is, And how blessed we are to have her as part of our family. Colette Eliza Chadwick My Special Spirit We were so excited to be pregnant again. Aaron was five and Bridgett was almost two and we were so happy to add another special spirit to our family. The days passed and the baby grew, along with our love for it. The day came that we found out that we were having a girl and I was secretly delighted. Aaron was a bit disappointed at first but he found the prospect of having a new baby to be more exciting than whether it was a boy or a girl. And the days passed on. Bridgett loved to climb up into bed with me and snuggle against my t...

Happy New Years Eve! Well we have pretty much spent the last week trying to recover from the eventful Christmas we had, The kids have loved having their Daddy home all week and So have I. He has played with them and all their new toys and they are all just having a blast. Well since we had the Christmas eve party at our house Dusty and I thought that have a quiet New Year's Eve at home sounded wonderful! Apparently however someone else in our house had other plans! Aaron got up this morning and announced that today was New years eve, and this is the day with no bed time! (what???? How on earth did he figure that one out???) And tonight we were going to have a party and what were we going to do at our party and who was coming? Dusty and I just looked at each other and we both realized that we were in BIG trouble! So that day we decided to have a make your own pizza night and invite my parents. It was all rather last min but it worked! Dusty and I got to go out on a date ...

One of the big sewing projects that I have been working on that I just got done right before Christmas was these Table runners. I did 4 sets of 4, for the first 4 holidays of the year. The run the full length of the table and while they were not hard to make they did at times get a little boring... but I love how they look and one day I'll actually make some for me. Oh and remember those Quilllows I made and posted about a few months back? I finally got those done, I ended up making 19 of them. Yes 19 What was I thinking? I have NO idea but in my defence I was NOT pregnant when I started them and was 9 months pregnant when I finished. My how time flies! The rest of my big projects are in the posts to follow. It was fun to do a home made Christmas this year, and I for sure learned how to be much better at sewing. but I think next year we might just buy gifts for everyone. Of course I say that now but that does mean it will stay that way!