As a developing Artist, my son is quite excited right now!
Grace at Horse Clinic....
A horsemanship clinic at Springside was on June 1, 2; so who participated in this? Not me this year.
The only horse we had that really needed to be around other horses and a new situation was Grace. Brian rode her and I watched Friday night. We learned that this mare is a highly sensitive horse and she needs to be treated with very light reins and subtle consistent cues. She was the only mare at this clinic so she was busy flirting and being distracted on the last day. So thankful Brian went with her this year.
It hits a mark for so many of us and losing a child
is just a bull's eye for some pain, guilt, anger, why me? (emotions)
I like to think I can handle this day like others, I have accepted it as is,
it doesn't fix anything so...
So I needed to do some history first:
On May 10, 1908, three years after her mother's death, Anna Jarvis held a memorial ceremony to honor her mother and all mothers at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, held on the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers.
Although Jarvis was successful in founding Mother's Day, she became resentful of the commercialization of the holiday. She would later denounce the holiday's commercialization and spent the latter part of her life trying to remove it from the calendar.
Mother's Day is the second most-popular holiday for gift-giving, following Christmas.
Hallmark began creating and producing Mother's Day card in the early 1920s.
I am blessed to still have my mother here with me and I do celebrate her!
however.....
I decided to make myself a personal gift and pull out a couple of Mother's Day cards
and early photos of myself, with Graham and Tommy. I lost Graham 15 years ago so it does me good to have these pictures and Mother's Day cards to look upon.
makes my heart smile!
(Graham meets Tommy for the first time)
The Great Sandhills in Southwest Saskatchewan
This was a very fun day together!
I have no advice really for getting through Mother's Day.
as it can make me feel
inadequate still and just because I lost a child and the reminders of women and men who have not lost,
sure seems to stick!
Plan for it!
Acknowledge the feelings!
I do honour Mothers, do not misunderstand me and this day.
I make sure I do things that make me
honour myself and appreciation that I am still a Mom
and I have my blessing, Tommy who
My son (Tom) and I visited Gramma and Grampa on Friday.
They are both turning 90 years old this fall.
Birthday cake day at College Park.
Every Friday from 4 - 5 pm there is dancing with a keyboard player
and Tom and Gramma were rockin' it on the dance floor.
(Gramma has to watch her heart though, because she likes to move and jive!)
one, two, three...
turn and jive!
Gramma was sooooo happy her Grandson danced with her, because Grampa doesn't dance anymore!
Here are....
Tom's budgies/parakeets!
I was attempting to teach them to say "hello" but they have not
spoken that word yet. Actually I think they are scared of me. Tom is their
Master and friend so he can pick them up and talk to them.
A new visitor came home yesterday. His name is Midnight and he is a 3 year old Paint!
Hubby's friend Morley owns this little colt and he is letting Brian do some horsemanship training with him! He is a cutie!
Here is a video of Midnight!
Looking forward to more riding again and to watch Brian
work with this young rascal!
Also had a birthday lunch with my sister Barb and my friend Ilona
at Eastside Marios! My niece Brenda was at this lunch too but I didn't get her in this photo.
I really enjoyed this time we had.
This is the end of my birthday week. (I'm now 63)
I have connected with 3 really good friends this month. Two from
Vancouver Island and this one in Regina. I am very glad we can still
be friends and laugh and share the good and bad times.
he is now #5 as one of the best you-tube puppet channels!!
(these are all the puppets he has made from paper mache and has and still uses in videos as animatronics like
eyes and tails glow in the dark, mouths move, heads spin, scary videos for youth, and he has used his
ventriloquist skills to enact conversation with them.)
that's our boy!
We are very proud of his creativity and surprising but yet not surprising ideas that
keep coming forth on this you tube channel he started in 2015.
I always needed a stool mind you, to get up onto his back, and hope
when I am out riding that we don't stop and have to get off
and then get back on; out where there is no stool. I have looked for many
boulders and bumps when this happens so I can leg up and get back on
(LOL)
Motherwell Homestead in-between Yorkton
and Regina.
This was an experience and scary to see these men
get this thresher running. How dangerous it was for
those farmers to operate this. They did get it running too!
My cowboy boots (Ariats) I bought in Bozeman, MT
in 2007 got an overhaul and I bronzed them with bronze spray paint
and painted
a bit of the design. I will keep these forever, and hopefully someone will
throw them in my coffin (morbid but thats what I want)
this Christmas season I realized that
Tom is a genius with puzzles he did this 1000
piece puzzle in 5 days - it is glued together now and we will
frame it! this was such a gift I had no idea it would
be put together that fast and it is a beautiful picture.
Thanks son!
We live 5 miles from a world renowned Strawberry
farm called Prairie Dome Strawberry Farm (look it up it is worth a trip) and they take you for a ride on the big
open ended wagons to your area of picking. Was enjoyable!
My dad gave me this letter that he found in one
of his photo albums as I wrote this to my
Grandma when I was 10 years old while at a summer camp.
(I think I was homesick a bit. I was only away for 7 days)
My husband (Brian) made a new bed frame for our
master bedroom bed. It was a new challenge and he
worked at it diligently. I am staining it here in this picture.
I was impressed!
One of my most dearest moments; Tom and I and Brian went for
a ride through the back hills at our Swift Current acreage during the holidays season in (guessing maybe 2009)
Tom can ride but his interest is not really that developed but he has gone
on a few rides with us. He rode Rocky and I must of been on Ben and Brian on
the colt at the time maybe Leroy.
Good Spirit Lake in April 2016
beautiful white sands and a lovely
clean lake for swimming and it has barely
changed since we used to go as a family
with my mom and dad. We always treasure
this spot and attend it several times in the summer!
Oh my this was so thrilling to see a sea turtle while
we were walking around the rocks at the Big Island in Hawaii
Special moment for me. They are so big!
Riding with the Top Line Trail Riding Club
at Sask. Landing and we were on the very highest ridge
I'm the second in line and Brian is the 2nd last rider.
One of our riders walked quite a ways up the other coulee
hill to get this photo.! (I was a bit nervous but I had Rocky and he
is the best trail riding horse, he is steady and sure)
Parkland Therapeutic Riding Club in Yorkton year end
party; the clients/kids got to paint this white horse
I have never seen that done before and this horse was amazing!
He was tied on each side of his bridle in the middle of the
horse barn so the kids could paint away.
My folks came up to see his exhibit
and that was pretty special for me and Tom having my parents come see his success in the
art genre.!
This was a blast and having our acreage to have a fireworks
celebration was so exciting. We bought the fireworks at Canadian
Tire and set them up down our lane. What a Hoot!
Myan Riveiria in Mexico!
This was the most wonderful
ocean I have ever swam in.
Loved this swim, this ocean....I truly
felt I was in heaven for about 30 minutes.....
will never forget! The universe was aligning up with
me at that time, I know it. I said an amazing prayer to God. It was January
last year and it can be a hard month.... (sigh)
Okay this was so cute, I helped Brian do the chores for our
neighbour back in November and she (our neighbour) had at this time 30 goats or so. We watered and
gave them some feed and I took this video. They are crazy busy and cute and
a bit noisy when excited. Our neighbour loves goats and makes homemade soap bars using
goat milk. This was a unique experience.
Horse back riding in Hawaii on the Big Island!
So loved this it was so beautiful and serene and different
landscape.
Here is my son's art exhibit of his marionette paper mache puppets from assorted cosplay characters that are popular with the youth most likely under age 14. These are
creations; which means he recreates characters from video games that youngsters love to play and watch from the internet world.
His display entailed the puppets hanging from the ceiling and on the wall with a screen
showing his videos.
He has a passion for this and his youtube channel is soaring with 152,000 subscribers.
On this same weekend my son had help from "the parents" (I kept them fed and hubby helped Tom mastermind this project) in constructing a new front fence and gates
and also a very long boardwalk from his front gate to the backyard.
(lots of boards here, plank by plank!)
So what was my creative part in this project of 4 days?
I bought the groceries, prepped and cooked the lunches and suppers a very
integral part.
We are home now and I think I have a poppy seed stuck in my tooth (I had a lemon poppy seed
slice that afternoon- very cool Donna )
