This past weekend my sisters and I got together for our annual weekend retreat. This year I got to have it at my house. We are all separated by many miles. With all of our busy schedules we don’t seem to find many opportunities to get together.
Many times when friends or family get together for a few days, by the end of the prescribed time everyone is ready to part ways. It is not that way with my sisters, the more time we spend together the more I can see where weakness in one sister is a strength in another. When working together we all merge beautifully into a complete whole. And we all like each other! Family is a miraculous unit in many ways.
One of my sisters loves to garden and she would have happily spent all day working in our very large yard—but she was not allowed. Another sister is a worker bee when it comes to cleaning up and she always had meals cleaned up and tidied away before I got around to thinking about it. Another sister climbed up on a high stool to replace light bulbs that I would never attempt, and so on.
Because I am so well supplied with raw materials for being creative with fabric, we all got started stitching on a wool applique project of our own creating. Our mother would have been proud to see her daughters in the same room together busily working on a sewing project. It was her favorite way to spend free time and those skills were her gift to us.
Of the four sisters who were here (one sister could not make it), my wool piece was the least creative. Before they got here, I had decided to make a covering for a specific antique table that was inherited from my husband’s family. As you can see, I have lots of stitching yet to do to finish!
It was a lovely time and I don’t like to think about waiting a full year to spend time with them again. We belong together.