”The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies." -Laura Ingalls Wilder
I used to study her hands, admire her hands. To match the rest of her entire being, she had the most exquisitely beautiful, artistic, strong, capable, intelligent, loving hands. I can still imagine how it felt when she ran her fingers through my hair and down my back, as I entered a zen-like state. She used to run her fingers around our faces and over our closed eyes to soothe us to sleep at night. Those hands taught me how to draw, paint, color....how to cook, sew, bake...garden, trim and tie grapevines. I can still see her beautiful fingers deftly scraping cookie dough off of the beaters or squeezing a Concord grape fresh off the vine.
I took the photos below about 3 years ago. I always loved to watch her make pie crusts from scratch and I thought I'd make a little montage of those extraordinary hands at their craft. Not only was she a master artisan at making the crusts, she was well-known for her pies...cherry, coconut cream, chocolate, apple, peach, grape, pecan.....and they were often requested as birthday gifts from family and friends. She made it look impossibly effortless and could whip a crust out in minutes flat. I can still hear her giggling at me, whenever I attempted to roll out the dough to imitate her perfect thickness, much less crimp the edges.
We used to joke about Grey Gardens, she'd be Big Edie and I'd be Little Edie, and we'd grow old and pleasantly demented together. My first blog post ever was the Mother's Day before she passed away and I am so happy she was able to see it. I never dreamt she'd be gone just a few short months later, when I wrote it.
God had other plans, but I love you, Mom, and you are forever in my heart. Thank you for giving me the gift of appreciating the little moments and the little things. I miss you terribly. A girl always needs her Mom...especially this one.
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