On Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all you precious mommies out there.

I have had a lovely day despite the fact that I have had a mild cold since Friday evening. Felt pretty bad during the night last night, but everybody let me get lots of sleep and rest today.

They made a really nice breakfast of sausage and eggs burritos. They reheated some for me when I FINALLY got up! We had a late lunch/early dinner of grilled fajitas and tamales and salad before heading to Sunday evening Mass at 5:30. What a blessing to have my Jacob serving at the Mass.

And here is my lovely Mother's Day gift!





My lovely new garden statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary! The one I had was plastic and seriously broken. I am so happy. Doesn't she look lovely in my flower bed? This week I hope to get out and get some pretty annuals to plant in from of her.

Blessings,

Celeste

Peace

Peace. Coveted peace. Peace of mind. Peace of soul. Peace in my heart. Where do I find peace?

This morning is filled with peace. Peace in our home (I use that term lightly) and peace within me reigns this new day. I am praising God that truly His mercies are new every morning. Yesterday was less than peaceful after a long, tiring weekend. We got a slow start. Some of the kids slept way too late. Our whole timing was off. School work took grumpy, tired children much longer to complete.

It is easy for me tell myself that the peace that has begun this day is a direct result of MY diligence in getting everyone out of bed much earlier (and an earlier bedtime last night), of MY ability to get things accomplished this morning before school begins, and of MY CHILDREN'S peaceful cooperation thus far. If I believe this then I am deceiving myself and allowing the "deceiver" to let me believe that peace is a direct result of something I have done.

So I stop right there. True peace is only found when I am putting myself in Jesus' presence all day long and trusting Him with every morsel of time. It is only by His grace and mercy and faithfulness that yesterday was labeled "less than peaceful" and NOT "disaster"! I know you know this truth deep down. So do I. But, oh, how easy it is to let those little lies slip into our minds and make a home.

Peace in Christ today!

As I was praying on this yesterday as well, I began to think of what robs my peace that Jesus offers so freely. More on that later.

So what robs you of peace?

Blessings,

Celeste

New Fabric.... Surprise, surprise

I bought this fabric last week off eBay.  I loved this fabric when it came out ages ago.  It has been out of print for years now.  Last week I was looking around and found this collection of one of each fabric from the original line, Katie Jump Rope.  It is so vintage and wonderful!  It wasn't cheap, it i snagged it anyway.  Each piece is approximately 9x11 and there are 36? of them!  I can do something nice with these.  Yay!

Easter Fun

Brian's Birthday Celebration

Head to the Shop!

Go check out my etsy shop!  Celeste Creates

I have some beautiful quilts for sale, of course.  They are my first love!

But I also have lots of new Fresh Fabric Flower Pins for sale.  They are such fun to make!

Someone is 40 today!

My dear, precious, amazing, wonderful, handsome husband is 40 today!

We can't wait for him to come home so we can share some birthday fun together.












Happy Birthday Brian!

Blessings,

Celeste