blessings

I was the recipient of a lovely belly blessing last Sunday- a beautiful sunny day filled with flowers and women and warm heartfelt wishes for my birth and for my baby-to-be. Everyone created a "birth bundle" contributing special objects and words to be wrapped up and kept for the baby at a later time. These things keep arriving too- from people unable to make it, and I imagine adding to it (and creating one for Ari too of things people gave him- since he was born a couple days before the planned event!) special cards and objects and the first outfit etc.My best friend (and doula) organized the event and had everyone bring beautiful bouquets of flowers which decorated the space and then were used to make "flower beads" to be worn during the birth.

They are currently drying at her place so I don't know how they turned out, but forming them was a lovely thing to do together. And not all the flowers got turned into beads so now my house is full of flowers from my friend's gardens.
Pictures are a little sparse, I wasn't in picture taking mode, but the day will stay warm and bright in my memory.

And Ari is always happy to do a little belly blessing of his own, which is a little easier to capture.