Feb
20
2012
20
2012
Santa Cruz Getaway
Filed under: Friends, Motherhood
It’s been a week since I jetted away from Colorado on my first “mama trip” in 8 years…all the way to one of my favorite places, Santa Cruz, California!
I flew right into the open arms of dear friends. Monica flew in from Texas, and Sarah joined us from the redwoods.
This was taken just 2 blocks from our perfect ocean cottage.
Staring at the ocean and soaking up the sound of the crashing waves.
31 weeks pregnant…by the sea. Pure happy.
So much time was spent together in the little living room. Listening to music. Soothing our souls. Talking for hours and hours about life, family, passions, and trials.
One of the most very sacred moments we had together was walking through the redwoods at dusk…
…touching the soft, damp moss. Oh how I’ve missed it!
And finally arriving…in the dark…at the opening of an enormous redwood. Sarah had gone ahead and prepared a space for us INSIDE of the hollow Felton mother tree. Twinkling white lights everywhere. Hot candy cane tea and dark chocolate. Sarah and Monica prayed for me, the baby, the birth, our friendship. Sarah knit me a beautiful and oh-so-soft “prayer shawl” that will be treasured forever. We laughed and talked and sat for a long while in the silence of the woods. When we finally emerged and stepped out in the expanse of redwoods, a screech owl let out a loud screeeeeeeech above our heads and then continued to fly along with us as we walked out. So symbolic :: wisdom shared among mothers. Mere words could never convey the magic that happened that night at Henry Cowell, but we all felt it, and will remember forever.
We walked down Pacific Ave…stopping in little shops and touching all the pretty things.
We indulged in the magic at Verve Coffee 4 times over the weekend. Mmmmm….
Love.
My dreads have new beads and wraps to remember our sweet time together.
And this…the last moment at the ocean that we spent together. Sitting close. Praying together. What a blessing these women are in my life. The gratitude I have surrounding this weekend is immeasurable. So thankful.
And then I flew home to my babies and my sweetie. Life is good.
Posted by Sara @ 5:44 pm | Leave a Comment
20
2012
Just beautiful, Sara. It sounds & looks like you have amazing friends!
20
2012
This is just beautiful! I find myself diving in to your breathtaking photographs, and imagining myself there. Thank you!
20
2012
This is fabulous. Beautiful memories…I can’t wait to hear more about it together over some hot tea.
20
2012
Can’t wait! I miss you!! xxoo
20
2012
What a beautiful trip!
20
2012
looks like a fantastic, and well deserved vacation.
21
2012
beautiful. i got goosebumps reading about the evening in the redwoods… what a kind of words cant describe it moment. thank you for sharing.
21
2012
Lovely! I can’t wait to see my dear friends again. It’s only been 2 months, but it seems like longer since I last saw them.
21
2012
I’m so happy for you and if there could be something like being jealous in a holy way, I would be too! God has amazing ways of giving us what we need and I’m so happy you had this amazing space and time to be prayed over and share your life. It makes me miss my friends and sisters now that I live in a diff continent…
Thank you for sharing the pictures with us. Inspiring! xx
21
2012
This is amazing, all of it…time spent with friends, the ocean, the redwoods, coming home to family…thank you for sharing. Sometimes seeing others’ joy provides such a reminder of the beauty in life!
21
2012
this is so good. loving the pics…thank you for sharing!
21
2012
What a beautiful post! Thank you for sharing that experience and the photos with us. I wonder why I’ve never thought to have peppermint tea and chocolate together. duh. I will have to correct that soon!
21
2012
What a joy it is to be in the company of sisterfriends. Life is so good!
21
2012
Beautiful! That belly of yours has the shape of a boy
21
2012
it was so good. so fun. so delicious. love your recap of our time. xoxoxo
and i think i may have found an even better piece of driftwood, one that there will be no way of mistaking for pine.
21
2012
we moved to nor cal 6 1/2 months ago…may never move away. i <3 California!
21
2012
I heart Santa Cruz so much. You look wonderful. Thanks for sharing your special time with us readers who live vicariously through your adventures. (did that sound stalkerish?)
21
2012
amaaaazing! I’m with happygirl – totally living vicariously! stalker or not! pardon me while I sip my citron oolong while doing so.. ha.
i long for friendships like this – how nurturing! beautiful.
21
2012
We’ve had lovely adventures together. Many more to come! Can’t wait to hold that baby!
22
2012
Yay! Looks like you had an amazing time! So glad you got that needed time with friends. refreshing.
23
2012
Beautiful post sarah. you are a beautiful soul and a true inspiration. Thank you for sharing. I can imagine it can be hard having your life out there. But so many people, my self included, have benefited from your wisdom and peace. Peace.
26
2012
This is such a lovely, peaceful post. I keep coming back to it, and smiling. We don’t share the same religious beliefs, but your blog does that for me EVERY SINGLE time I visit. It’s such a nice feeling, that there are good people of all sorts out there in the world.