Bunnies
I'm playing along with the lovely Bella in her new 52 Photos Project. Nourish is this week's prompt. Perfectly fitting for what I've been thinking about this week
Easter. We had visiting family - all siblings, no grownups - which was so much fun.
I made things. Probably too many things. Things to eat and things to make the house pretty. Decorating...cleaning....trying to recreate what I can't have. Trying to make it like home....except I'm not at "home" ...because I live on the other side of an ocean from my parents and sisters. And I'm trying to create things for my children out of the overactive imagination that inhabits my head.
My intentions are honest. I want people to feel welcomed and loved and cared for. I want to nourish them. But it does come at a price, because I am terrible at organizing and planning. So things never quite go right. Things are late or burned or don't happen. Which is when I learn (again) that my expectations are often unrealistic...and no one else's expectations of what I should be doing are ever quite as ridiculous as my own.
But despite my failings...there was Food. That thing that is supposed to nourish us. I made so much of it. I thought so much about it. I planned and baked and chopped and stirred. But when everything was cleared away from the weekend, the thing I kept coming back to were these two little bunnies. They were my VERY favorite things I made for Easter. One of each of my little boys. Small, simple, easy. Made in spare stolen minutes. And making them caused me the least stress and the most joy.
This is a lesson I need to remember.
