Thank you for visiting The French Elements blog where French is a state of mind. If I can't be in France, at least my mind can spend some time there. Won't you join me?
My name is Barb and I am the woman behind the online boutique THE FRENCH ELEMENTS. While I will always keep The French Elements blog (so many memories), I have started a new one and I hope you will visit.
CHASING THE NEXT CHAPTER is about change. The past few months I have been thinking about writing a new blog. My youngest son passed away 7/1/2015 and life will never be the same for us. He entered Heaven and we entered a new chapter in our lives. A very different chapter that is still unfolding.
We have always talked about moving back to Europe (or elsewhere). The talk continues but we are planning on making the dream our reality.
He would be pleased.
Know who you are, accept who you are, be who you are.
Tres chic!
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
Beautiful
The most powerful thing you can do to change the world, is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, reality, to something more positive.
Shakti Gawain
motto for every year
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, It's not the end.
Off in the distance Mount Baker, in the USA, gleams in the sunlight. My
best guess is that it's about 100 km away as the crow flies. To drive, it's
26...
From Mom & Dad's Estate in The Netherlands, also came home a silver clock
that we once gifted Mom.
It was also a double photo frame...
Here it is — three p...
Another year of sowing and raising Tomatoes! I'm always so thrilled when
the tiny leaves appear and the distinctive scent of tomato leaves emanates
from...
For chefs and foodies alike, it's an exciting harbinger of spring: the
announcement each year of the new Michelin-star ratings in the latest
edition of ...
I went from Happy New Year to Happy Valentine's Day:) Long time between
blogs these days. Busy times makes blogging take a back seat. Here are my
beau...
Hello, my children. Last we met it was July and here it is October. The
summer came and went and the days are getting shorter. Lots going on my in
da...
We have babies!
The old cigar box proved to be the cutest little house
and those eggs were laid, hatched and babies fed in
a matter of days! The other ...
I suppose I should have posted this a long time ago.
My blog is taking a break from me for a while. Apparently a long while.
I am very busy with work and li...
Last week a group of ballroom dancers put on a show at my mother's care
facility. Mum, pretty in her flowered hat, seemed to enjoy the music and
costumes,...
*...and that is a place many of us have to visit*...caring for a beloved
mother, and helping her pass from this world into the next. We buried her
in her b...
Whew the Christmas season went by like a blur!!!! And the Cottage Garden
girls have been busily opening up boxes of all the new spring and everyday
decor...
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May he and every other mother's son or daughter who, like him dedicate themselves so that the rest of us can sleep peacefully at night, stay safe and come home soon.
9 comments:
A mother's prayers touch our Father's heart like no other. May He keep Jeff in his tender loving care....
Debi
Many prayers going out to Jeff. I have a son named Jeff. I can't imagine the worry you are going through...
Thinking of you, Barb.
XO,
Janie
A hard time for you, saying good bye to your lovely son.
I will pray for him, his safety and for you too.
Hey Barb, thank you for sharing your son with us. We will all be thinking of him, wishing him well, and saying our prayers.
Love, Bonnie
I love you too Jeff and praying for your safe return! Have a blessed day dear Barb! HUGS!
Barb, you are in my prayers along with Jeff and his family.
Hugs,
Genie
Blessings and safety...yes! We're all praying that! :)
Barb, how amazingly proud you have to be -- our thanks to him and all who go with him.
Godspeed indeed.
XOXO
Ruth
May he and every other mother's son or daughter who, like him dedicate themselves so that the rest of us can sleep peacefully at night, stay safe and come home soon.
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