A Work in Progress

You may have noticed that it has been a LONG time since I posted. To fill you in, there has been a lot going on over here that has kept me from Thistlebees. For one, my sweet husband Justin has been reworking my blog and we have finally moved it from its temporary location to its permanent home here at WordPress. While he puttered away with that, I was in the midst of taking two summer classes for my Masters degree in Education at Boston College. It has been a labor of love going part-time but I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. This fall semester, I will complete my last class and my teaching pre-practicum. Next spring was to be my last semester completing my teaching practicum and thesis but we hit a little bump in the road or should I say, we found a little bun in the oven. Very unexpectedly and totally unplanned, we found out at the beginning of August that we are expecting our third child. Now mind you I am no domestic “Angel of the House” as Esther in Bleak House - I’m barely keeping it all together with the two little loves I have now, Kate who’ll be five in September, and Riley who is 17 months old.

In addition, to being a mother of two darling yet completely crazy and exhausting children, it was clearly through divine intervention (because believe me we were taking precautions) that God believed our family was not yet complete, and whether we were ready or not, there was one more little soul out there waiting to join the circus we call our family. Needless to say, between family, school, and babies, I also have to keep up Thistlebees, my shop at the Cider Mill. Add to this that I decided it would be a great opportunity to try Brimfield this fall and would need to revive and rehab the myriad of furniture in my basement before the show, and you have complete and utter chaos. But it’s a good chaos I guess since I am finally getting to all those projects that have taken over “Man Town” for the past year since I started taking home all the strays I found in my travels - those pieces that just needed a little love to be great again - well, a little love and a whole lot of facelift.

So, now that Brimfield is on the very near horizon and most of my pieces are finished, I am hoping to dedicate more time and effort to sharing all that is Thistlebees with you. Stay tuned…