Project Home & Healing: The Kitchen Table

What a lovely idea. As the rain pours down outside, I could do with a blether round the kitchen table. : ) Thank you for, yet again, putting yourself out there. 

What a lovely idea, I'd love to join in x

Oh boy! Does this ever sound delightful and right where I am! I have been a home lover for over 30 years and it's full-time tender. Thank you for inviting me to get to know you and into your everyday! And while I am a vanilla chia kind of girl, I would love to try a cup of your soymilk cappuccino with maple syrup!

i'll take a Rooibos vanilla with just a tiny squeeze of agave, please.  What a wonderful beautiful idea,

What a wonderful idea.

Thank you for the invitation!  I was just talking to my husband about my wish for a small circle of women who wanted to sit around the kitchen table to just talk once in a while.  In my town everyone seems to be too busy running around "getting things done" and feel the need to always attach a reason for a get-together:  book club, planning for an orgnaization, etc.  I'm a homeschooling mom and a gardener who maintains a small farm.  Yes, I'd love to join this group.  And maybe, just maybe, I'll finally learn to knit ;) 

Sounds delightful, Renee.

A cup of Silk Dragon Green Jasmine sounds wonderful - please and thank you.

You are such a gracious hostess!

I have really been relating to your words this fall. Your challenges and the work you are doing to move forward have really been helping me. I am so glad you have decided to invite me for tea.  I'll have a Cream of Earl Grey with milk please. 

Oh! This might be just what I need! I'll take the forever nuts if you please :) I hope next time you come to the capital I can return you the favor!

I am so looking forward to this. I am turning 50 in May and I want this to be a year of growth.

What a nice idea!  I've never met a tea I didn't like.  I'm a bit of an introvert, so I'll be the quieter one at the end of the table.  And I'll contribute the homemade (virtual) cookies. Because cookies!

Hi Renee! I'm so looking forward to this. I have been feeling stripped to my core lately and in need of healing. Looking forward to this community! Blessings!

Thank you so much for this wonderful idea of yours. I am turning 50 this year as well and I finally coming to a place of acceptance of who I am.   Your writing resonates with me and I am so excited when I get an email announcing your posts.  I am looking forward to visiting with all of you at the kitchen table

I love the idea of a circle of women gathering in support of each other from various ages, stages and walks of life. Forty is only a few months away and there are strings tugging away at me. I just haven't discovered what lies at the other end yet. Thank you, Renee, for all of this - your disclosure, vulnerability, humility and inspiration. Your truth is changing people. We need you and your story.

Thank you Renee! I would love to join with you. I was casusally following your blog last year but after reading your posts since returning from your trip. You truly feel a kindred woman to me. This feels like community to me. I look forward to receiving from you being lifegiving in your unique ways. I also would love to walk the journey with you and be life giving in this community. Thank you for providing this opportunity! Blessings on you, on this step, on this community and to all the women joining!

you're the best. xo

This fits perfectly into my 'year of self care'.

Also since starting homeschooling I have been feeling a bit disconnected 

Anna

PS Americano for me please

Cream of Earl Grey with extra cream, please! I've been meaning to reach out to you for several months now, ever since my family returned from our 10 month sailing journey down the west coast of the US and Mexico and you started writing your story of pain and recovery which so closely resembles many of my experiences. 

Lately, I've been gradually weeding out my RSS feed until only helpful words remain and I'm so glad to have found yours. It's easy to get overwhelmed trying to stay aware and connected to all that is out there. I refuse to walk that path anymore. It seems lush and fertile, but only leads me to a dry, desert spirit where there is no room left for creativity. 

But this! This sounds like it will nurture my intentions for this year to stay small and do my own work, love my own people and my own place. Thank you for offering a piece of yourself to us!

Thank you for this. I turn forty tomorrow and this lovely group has appeared at just the right time for me.

So grateful for your posts as they speak to me as I will turn 50 in a few.  My theme for this year is restore.  Restore the pieces of me that have faded into years of parenting, homemaking, and working along side my husband.   Restore my health and well being.  Restore unto me the joy of my salvation and renew a right spirit within me... so grateful you are opening up your virtual home as you bravely open your healing journey. I was actually wishing for you to do this as I read your last few posts.  So you can imagine the Wow experience I had today. 

Another homeschooling hiker Mom turning 50 as well. I've been feeling very disconnected from my beloved of late. I've made lots of changes and experienced a lot of personal growth in the last year pursuing a more wholehearted life.   I want to restore some connection and joy into our relationship.  I feel as though I'm approaching a crossroads of sorts and could use the collective wisdom of others in similar situations. 

Thank you for offering the virtual table...could someone pass the honey?

Earl Grey with milk for me please :-)

San x 

Love this, and such good timing for me.  Renee you continue to inspire.

A cup of green tea sounds perfect.

What a delightful opportunity!  I'd love a Vanilla Roobios with a squeeze of honey.  I'll bring my knitting!

Mary

I love the sound of this so much - all the words you wrote there are resonating with my soul. My word for this year is 'healing' and this fits perfectly. I also love the fact you have given yourself the freedom to opt out yourself if you want to!  I have signed up, thank you <3

Thank you Renee! I would love to join. Looking forward to reading your words.

Big changes happening around me at the moment so I'd love a cup of tea to help me find and warm and anchor my core.

Renee.....This sounds wonderful.  I'm looking forward to our chats around the kitchen table.

This could not have come at a better time Renee.  I have been taking the month of January just to gather my thoughts in my notebook.  It is filling with lists and notes quickly.  I'm slowly coming out of the mind clutter. Can't wait to talk!    I would love a cup of earl grey please.

Lovely! Look forward to it! I'll have an Americano and I brought some gluten free chocolate cake to share. Because chocolate!

This is beautiful.  I'll be honoured to participate (even if I promised myself I'd not start any new projects this year...). And vanilla rooibos, any day.  But, I'll serve you whatever you like if you visit my kitchen table. :)

It's warm here so I'll have an iced coffee, thank you....and I'll bring some shortbread. It's a lovely idea.

What a wonderful idea! And I'm always up for a yummy cup o tea!

What a wonderful idea!  I'm looking forward to it.  Thank you, Renee!

Great idea Renee! This used to be a regular in my life when the kids were little. Chatting, laughing, sharing with friends, drinking tea! Now I am in my forties I only have one regular meet-up per week, everyone is so busy! A virtual kitchen table sounds like the next best thing :-)

There have been enormous changes in my life in the past few months - leaving my home of 35 years, moving to another state and buying a new home, and having my parents move in with my husband and I.  No regrets about having done any of it, but it's a lot to process and adjust to. Looking forward to your essays, as long as you feel inspired to write them (glad you have given yourself permission to stop at any time).

I made a decsion a long time ago to steer clear of social media as much as possible so a Facebook portion would not be possible for me, but that's okay. (I loved what a previous commenter said about how all the info/social media available to us seems like such a fertile ground, but usually leads to a dry desert for the spirit (paraphrase)).

Oh my! What a breath of fresh air of an idea for the beginnings of 2015. I am excited to add my chair to this wonderful Kitchen Table ...... Pu'erh for me please. I have no idea what type of drink that is but since I am all for trying something new, then order up! :)

Could I have a regular coffee spiked with half-n-half and a bit of white, refined sugar? Yeah, that's me.

Totally signed up. Loving having friends over for coffee.

I'm so excited about this! We are moving to another state in 2 weeks and I just told my husband that it feels like we're pushing the "reset" button in just about every area of our lives. The last year has been a struggle. Here's to a healing and restoring 2015!

A little late to the table, but grateful to be among such lovely company! If there is a spot of Jasmine left, kindly direct it into this little mug 'o mine. Much obliged! :)

Sad that I have discovered this so late in the year.  Wondering if it will continue in any form into 2016?