Happy Mother’s Day!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIZgRt8UgAOzsw-bKvwFCDOF5XW90V7UIkezO9Z5IK65CANWrVUnxviClBt4PXEPcCymgQu02V97hyjGsDonH1WLxbUXMtS70RrczIgGbZfBIgAPPXO2mutxGlgELzPA4lfWKdw4Z1iXyp/s1600/mom+w:dresses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIZgRt8UgAOzsw-bKvwFCDOF5XW90V7UIkezO9Z5IK65CANWrVUnxviClBt4PXEPcCymgQu02V97hyjGsDonH1WLxbUXMtS70RrczIgGbZfBIgAPPXO2mutxGlgELzPA4lfWKdw4Z1iXyp/s800/mom+w:dresses.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Mom with just a handful of the dresses she is making </i><i>to send to girls in the </i><i>Cape Verde islands. She was inspired to sew them after learning that my aunt Mary – </i><i>who recently visited these islands where my paternal family is from –vowed </i><i>to send back </i><i>1,000 articles of clothing to the island children.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin7y1C7r7PWNx8Hyr5m20cMTddjWf0DfL7-NDV5fEcuqzMOH-_bhxuqVIOIzqllPoeIcmld-3_AP5o6TKKOWtG8F6UYV4sby96ViY4i4XG17dLzwCIF0PBdmbUyt5rjwI1y2N1MAbzzun9/s1600/wisteriablossom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin7y1C7r7PWNx8Hyr5m20cMTddjWf0DfL7-NDV5fEcuqzMOH-_bhxuqVIOIzqllPoeIcmld-3_AP5o6TKKOWtG8F6UYV4sby96ViY4i4XG17dLzwCIF0PBdmbUyt5rjwI1y2N1MAbzzun9/s800/wisteriablossom.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">This Wisteria vine in my garden blossomed for the very first time today. I planted it several years ago after my mom gave it to me – it is an off shoot from a plant that I gave her on Mother’s Day over 10 years ago.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Happy Mother’s Day to all of the moms</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and caretakers who love unconditionally</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and are a constant source of inspiration!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">xoxo yvonne</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>

Happy Mother’s Day!

Mom with just a handful of the dresses she is making  to send to girls in the  Cape Verde islands. She was inspired to sew them after learni...

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