I just enjoyed a wonderful weekend on the Oregon coast with my parents and my three sisters. What a magical weekend we had. It was fun to spend time together walking on the beach, drinking wine, eating, doing a jigsaw puzzle and just generally reconnecting. We have never really spent time together without spouses and/or our many children and it was very nice to do just that.
(not that we don't enjoy our husbands and children:)
It was Mom's 70th birthday and we presented her with a quilt that my sister Trisha put together. It was amazing! One sister mailed out a letter to Mom's friends and family asking them to mail in a piece of fabric and a small card with their birthday greeting. Another sister collected the squares and cards and sent them to my little sister in Baltimore, Maryland. Then my little sister joined a quilting group (!) and created a masterpiece with all the fabric.
I then created a scrapbook of our beach weekend and the fabric notecards -- Mom of course loved it all! We all did some crying over the weekend - HAPPY tears. Mom told us that us four girls and Dad were "her life" and Dad gave a wonderful toast to Mom, whom he called "the mainstay of our family". She is an amazing woman and we all feel lucky to have her as our mother.
The weather was great, the beach rental was fabulous, and the company was even better. What a blessing!
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