Life is in the Details.
I have determined that 2024 is going to be a life lived in the details. 2023 was a beautiful year but is was a year of big changes. Lots of uproots and big swings. In the year of big changes I feel like there wasn’t room to embellish our days with the details.
The big changes and life events were necessary to accomplish some of our life goals and I don’t regret them for a second. But I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little exhausted from the upheaval. All the routines I learned to love over the last five years changed with the addition of two new babies, my husbands new job, and moving to a new house.
This year a new foundation was set. The underpainting, the broad strokes that set the tone to create the rest of our life on. In 2024 I am eager to build on these rough sketches with the small details and textures of daily life. Hot coffee on a winter morning in a hand thrown mug. Spring afternoons planting seeds with my babies listening sounds as the waterfowl return. Picking the first peonies as warm summer sun tans little barefoot baby toes. Filling August days with beaches and blooms and taking the chance to really let it sink before the next season comes and goes.
2023 was a life lived in boxes and pack and plays. A year when summer nights were spent refinishing floors and redoing roofs. Babies were snuggled from lawn furniture as living room couches and lunches were made on plywood countertops. The details and special snuggles were missed in the name of just making it through. 2024 will be a year of being present. A year to soak in the feelings and the stages. A year to reflect on the little details in a day.
And as always, I am so lucky to have wonderful people who continue to support True Blue Flower Co. With the big changes in 2023, I didn’t get to give the business and you all the same love and appreciation you deserve. Just know it means the world to have your support as we floated through the past year and I am so eager to reconnect in with you and the flowers in 2024.
When we moved to our new house, because it was a bit smaller we decided to build a shed. We would use it to park our car and equipment and I would the back corner for all things seeding, tuber diving, and flower farming. I didn’t care what my space looked like but the one thing I wanted was a glass garage door on the side so I cool see out when I worked. I wanted to watch the kids play and have a view as I did tedious tasks of flower farming. There were plenty of things I could sacrifice so I could have this detail.
When the building was finished there was a miscommunication and the door that got installed was a solid normal garage door. I was a little heart broken but figure it was ok, my request was a quite a bit extra cost and a little frivolous anyway. However for some reason my husband realized how much this detail would make a difference to me and he pushed to have them change the door. Not just put in a few windows to the existing one, but replace it with a full window panel door.
Three days ago the builders came back, I’m sure a little annoyed by this request, and replaced the door with the solid windows door. I have been seated in front of it every day since. This detail to me isn’t just a door, but a way to continue to enjoy life as a mom and a business owner. A way that my work can feel inclusive instead of being holed up in a dark space away from the world. I can watch the snow fall and the kids play. It doesn’t matter if some of your important details don’t make sense to a lot of people, but they do matter if you know they’ll make a world of difference to you. There are plenty of detail to let go by the wayside its just listening to the ones we know will make your world a better place. Sincerely Me as I sit looking out my beautiful 10 foot glass door.
