Happy Heart Day ~

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Mom's Christmas Jewels ~ Memory Count Down ~ Day 29

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These are just a very few of Mom's (1933~2010) beautiful German Christmas tablecloths. Over the years she brought them home with her on her yearly trips while visiting our family in Augsburg . . . she always made sure she added to my collection too. So between us, we have quite a collection of these very pretty and special Christmas linens. The ones in the collage are just some that I used this year throughout the house.

Just after mom passed, I was able to get a small part of her linens . . . I am still in awe of the wonderful shape they are in. She had had them for so many years, yet, they are perfectly ironed, folded and 99% stain free . . . I have always wondered how she did it . . . I have always been afraid to use them because in this family, we are pretty rough on our stuff but I know she would want us to enjoy them  . . . that's what her intention was all along . . . and . . . I don't mind the washing and ironing to take care of them . . .  I feel very blessed to have such special treasures.

~ Happy Holidays! ~

Happy Independence Day ~

Happy Memorial Day ~

Honoring our Heroes . . . men and women that fought and continue to fight to keep our freedom . . . Happy Memorial Day!

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies

That blood of heroes never dies.
                                          ~   Moina Michael

Inspired by the 1915 poem  . . . In Flanders Fields ~ by John McCrae

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