05/04/2021
It’s Mother’s Day week and If I’m honest, I have been dragging my feet to get ready for what a big, BIG week Mother’s Day week is.
My dad was in an accident a couple weeks ago and has made our reality as a family a bit different. Priorities have shifted, Juggling the shop, up coming wedding season and driving back and forth to St George has my mind in a bit different space this year.
But then tonight I went to check on my parents house, and do you know what I saw? I saw family photos, photos of the grandkids, all the alphabet pillows my mom sewed in the kids reading room, notes in my Dad’s den from people he has helped. I saw the life my parents have created for us. I saw what family is and can be. I saw a home that has been filled with life events for the past 30 years.
I saw this house I know so well in a whole new light. I felt immense gratitude for this space that my parents have cultivated for us. Im so grateful that my dad is on the road to recovery and will come back to fill the space with more memories.
That’s what family does, It rally’s and over comes.
So this year, Mother’s Day doesn’t look perfect for my family and it might not look perfect for yours. It might bring up a lot of feelings or heart ache and you know what, I feel ya. But guess what can cure a sad and tired heart? Service. Acts of kindness. Gifts of love and beauty that remind someone they are important. And that’s the business what we are in. Today I was reminded of that. It’s not just “work” that we do. We help people send their love to those they are rallying around and for.
So this year for Mother’s Day it is my wish that we all look for ways to serve those that have provided us with life, that have created homes for us, that have nurtured us and given us safe spaces to be ourselves. That have taught us, supported and lifted us, that have cried for us and with us. Let’s show them that we are grateful for them, their selflessness and their resilience. So do me a favor and look for someone you can send some love to this weekend and If you need some help, let us make some flowers for you.