Hello, and welcome to my little online home!
You are so welcome here. If I could tuck you into my great easy chair with your favorite drink, cold or hot, give you some deep rest from the outside world and tell you why I am so glad you are here...
I am a mother of 5, and as I have traveled this road called Motherhood I have grown more and more passionate about this place we call home. It is the one place on earth that each one of us, and those we love should feel unconditionally loved, supported, inspired, and safe. Always I have longed for, and worked to create just such a haven for my husband, children, and anyone who crosses our doorstep. Never did I dream I would be here... doing this! But...
MY WHY:
After what was a normal pregnancy and birth, one of my babies ended up in the NICU for awhile after he was born, and I experienced as well as witnessed other mothers in that lonely NICU journey with preemies, or with a difficult diagnosis. Though I was eventually able to leave the hospital with a healthy baby of my own, a huge piece of my heart stayed with those mothers in that difficult and lonely place, so often facing a long, scary, and unknown journey with their beautiful babies.
Years later, in the joyful expectation of another child, after my midterm ultrasound at 22 weeks, I faced the indescribable anguish of hearing that my pregnancy would end in the death of my baby. There was nothing the doctors could do. As I walked that long and awful road, my heart was, again, torn apart for all the women who travel through the unspeakable anguish of infant loss. As a woman of faith, I clung to God with both hands, but oh, my heart. For the rest of my natural life, it will be torn between Heaven and earth.
And so... sweet friends, my mission became a burning passion to reach out to you, wherever you are in your journey, and bless you with a place called Home. A place to source some of the things I longed for and sought to find in my own journey. A place where you are heard, emotionally supported, surrounded by unconditional love, acceptance and care. A place to be you. To be at peace in the midst of whatever you are going through. Come from wherever you are on the globe.
MY MISSION:
I seek to bring you content that feeds your soul, to create and source products that comfort and meet your physical and emotional needs. To bring you a whisper of hope when you want to give up, a ray of light in the dark times, and love that wraps warm arms around you when you feel so alone.
Come. Be warm. Be comforted. Be rested. Be at Home.
THE STORY BEHIND THE NAME:
As I walked through the long weeks of anguish and heartbreak, knowing my baby was not going to live past birth, feeling his little kicks and hearing his brave little heart working so hard to beat on the echocardiogram monitor, a picture slowly grew and formed in my mind.
the picture of the story...
THE UGLY DUCKLING.
Brave little "duckling" who broke through his shell just like all the others in that nest of hatchlings. Valiant little one that was so perfect in his own right but nobody around him understood. The story of something our human mind thinks is not what it should be.
We desperately want to change the narrative. We want it to be what we would consider perfect. We don't know that the end result can be a mirrored image of a magnificent swan in the calm surface of the lake of life. We don't realize that just maybe we, the mothers that God in His incomprehensible wisdom, chose to carry these hard stories, are Swans with the glint of silver on our wings. What if these precious babies we mother are not the common adorable ducklings known to the rest of the world, but the makings of something far more lovely.
I grew slowly to change my perception of what I had always thought of as perfect.
These tiny valiant souls who fight for every little bit of life they have... They are the swans in our lives. They teach us what it is to love. They teach us what brave is. They teach us to see what is perfect...
THE TINY SWANS