moving on...

While not completly soap related, today we sold our old home.

It was the one we brought Emma home to, where learned about her delays, where we met our first round of case managers, developemental assessors, therapists and the place we would always "come home to" after hospital visits and doctors' appointments.

It was also the place where our soapmaking discoveries, experiments, test recipes and trials and alas, our first "gifts" from Emma's Friends began. The labels were more rudimentary, the cuts certainly no where near square but where our love of the art and giving of it began.

So, we turn a chapter in our history today, as we did yesterday, marking our first full year in business. It has been an eventful week, with much to look back on as we celebrate those things which come to an end.

I'll miss that old house. Literally old, as in built around 1785. A fabulous old house I thought we would be in for decades to come as evidenced by all that we had done with it.

But now, there is a new little girl in Emma's old room. A little girl named Ella, funny how alike their names are. Ella has fallen in love with the moon and stars we had a local artist paint on the wall above Emma's crib as we awaited her arrival. Now Ella calls them her moon, in her room, with the pink vellum-like painted stripe and pink velvet striped curtains.

So on this night, we say, good night stars, good night moon, good night sweet little Ella. May God watch over you and your family as you build your own wonderful memories in that wonderful old house...

Truly,
Lynn