Hello! Welcome to my blog! I have always loved to give homemade gifts for Mother's Day, or if I had to buy something, to put some sort of creative spin on it. When my daughter was younger, we made all sorts of things together to give to her two grandmothers, an aunt and a great grandmother. The above picture is a simple project we did together by sewing the word "HOME" with jute on some cotton, drawing flowers hearts and butterflies on the cotton, and then framing it. The year we made these I made some poems to go with it. There is a poem for Mother, Aunt and Grandmother. The beginning of the poems are all the same, but they are changed up at the end to personalize them. The poems are about the difference of a house, built with materials, and a home, built with a mother's love.
MOTHER
A house is built with materials:
lumber, brick and stone.
Love, patience and sacrifice;
That’s what makes a home.
A good foundation is a sturdy
houses start. The foundation is
essential so the house doesn’t
fall apart.
The foundation of a home is s
most important task. Its material
comes from a mother’s heart,
a love that’s made to last.
I know things were not always
easy. Perhaps at times you felt
alone. But I want to thank you
now for all your hard work,
for making our house a home.
GRANDMOTHER
A house is built with materials:
lumber, brick and stone.
Love, patience and sacrifice;
That’s what makes a home.
A good foundation is a sturdy
houses start. The foundation is
essential so the house doesn’t
fall apart.
The foundation of a home is s
most important task. Its material
comes from a mother’s heart,
a love that’s made to last.
You are my mother’s mother,
the foundation of love is deep.
I thank you for your handiwork;
a blueprint of love so sweet.
AUNT
A house is built with materials:
lumber, brick and stone.
Love, patience and sacrifice;
That’s what makes a home.
A good foundation is a sturdy
houses start. The foundation is
essential so the house doesn’t
fall apart.
The foundation of a home is s
most important task. Its material
comes from a mother’s heart,
a love that’s made to last.
You are my mother’s sister,
But you are so much more you see;
you have always had a mother
heart extended out to me.
Your door is always open. Your
love you have always shown, so I
thank you from the bottom of my
heart for making your house
my home.
If I was making this gift this year with my adult daughter I would make this craft to go with the poems: Click below to go to the tutorial.
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