🕯️ Hidden Treasure
What if life has been leaving little treasures for you all along?
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Hi Love,
My daughter dragged a stool across the kitchen tile the other day with the kind of determination only children have.
I almost told her not to climb.
Instead, I kept unloading groceries while she reached one arm over the top of the refrigerator and said,
“Mom… what even is all this stuff up here?”
And first came the dust. 😂
Thick enough to make both of us laugh.
But underneath the dust…
there were old magnets. Paper hearts. Tiny drawings in crooked marker. Little pieces of artwork that had somehow slid all the way to the back and been forgotten.
Most of them belonged to my oldest daughter.
Back when her handwriting was still uneven and oversized. Back before she became taller than me seemingly overnight. Back when she handed me drawings almost daily like tiny offerings from her inner world.
I stood there holding one of them longer than I expected to.
The kitchen smelled faintly like grocery bags and strawberries. The dishwasher hummed in the background. One child was asking for a snack while another was still balancing precariously on the stool above me.
Life was continuing normally.
And yet for a moment, it felt like time bent a little.
Like pieces of the past had quietly been waiting above the fridge this whole time.
Not lost. Just unnoticed.
I think motherhood is full of moments like that.
Tiny things hiding inside ordinary days.
A sentence your child says that suddenly catches in your chest. An old photo tucked into a drawer. Hearing laughter from another room and realizing how different the sound is now than it used to be. A version of yourself you thought disappeared… slowly finding her way back.
I spend so much of life moving quickly these days.
Answering questions. Cleaning counters. Remembering appointments. Trying to hold all the invisible pieces together.
And sometimes I forget how much beauty exists quietly alongside all of it.
The kind of beauty waiting in dusty corners. The kind you almost miss entirely.
Maybe that’s part of why I’ve been craving slower conversations lately. Not more noise. Not more content.
Just spaces where we can pause long enough to notice our own lives again.
So, I’ve created a space for us to chat by virutal candlelight. Mini chats to help us find the treasures in the ordinary. This week inside our Candlelight Chat, I’d love to ask:
✨ Have you experienced any hidden gifts lately?
A memory. A realization. A tiny moment of beauty. Something unexpectedly meaningful hiding in plain sight.
No perfect words needed. Just come as you are.
The candle is lit whenever you’re ready. Hop in and join the conversation. 🕯️
With So Much Love,
Catherine 💖
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Have you experienced any hidden gifts lately?
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You are loved. 💖
Thank you for receiving my invitation request. Although my children are now young adults, there are times where I feel. I’m still nurturing myself as a mom because we know once a mom always a mom. I really enjoyed “ Hidden Treasures.” I instantly revisited when my children would often give me hand-drawn pictures of the sun, moon and stars. I still keep them. I still have them.