A Very Grateful Easter with Mapiful
I know many people are feeling kind of blue celebrating Easter without massive family gatherings and such. As a military family, we have grown quite accustomed to holidays spent casually at home so this is really nothing new for us. It also doesn’t really make us feel sad at all. In fact, the only thing that is making me sad today is Ralphie’s refusal to participate in anything we have done so far to make the holiday a little bit special. Our memories of Easter 2020 will be less tainted by quarantine than they will be by our family photos missing a kid. But rather than focus on the negative, I am going to focus on gratitude instead.
When we can’t be home with our families for special occasions, we can still feel connected to home especially with a Mapiful print of where our little family originated. Through Mapiful, you can create your own customized print of any place on earth. Do you have a special place that you hold near and dear to your heart? Or perhaps that one place that sits at the top of your travel bucket list? You can personalize a Classic Mapiful print to decorate your home in a very personal and creative way.
*This is a sponsored post. I was gifted this print for purposes of this review. As always, all thoughts and opinions are completely my own.
Perhaps there is a special moment in time that had a great impact on your life: the day you met your soulmate, your wedding date, or the birth of your children. By entering the date, time, and location of your special event, you can create a Star Mapiful print that will illustrate the alignment of the stars at the precise moment and location of your choosing.
Maybe astrology is more your thing. You also have the option to create a Zodiac Mapiful print. You can customize your Zodiac print with your star sign as well as the typical personality traits associated with your sign, your birthdate, birthstone, ruling planets, and astrological symbol. With Mapiful, the options are many with 12 different styles available to choose from for each of the 3 different prints. You can also customize the text and choose from 6 sizes.
My new 18” x 24” Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, print is the Classic Mapiful in Asphalt. But if you have trouble deciding on just one print, Mapiful has current offer of 50% off your second print.
Not only do Mapiful prints make meaningful home decor ideas for yourself, but they also are unique gift ideas for a variety of occasions: graduations, engagements, weddings, births, and birthdays. I am certain that anyone who receives a personalized Mapiful print would proudly display it and cherish the meaning behind it.
And so I leave with you this…be grateful today. Even for the smallest things. Like food on the table and flowers in bloom. For sweatpants, tie dye, and hair dye. For time spent in solitude or quietly at home with your immediate family. A holiday is just a day like any other. Be grateful for life and love. Be grateful for family near and far. Be grateful for children when they behave nicely and when they drive you crazy. Practice gratitude every day. I swear it makes all the difference in the world.
From my family to yours, we wish you many blessings today and every day.
Feeling grateful on the edge,
Shelbee
Linking up with these Fabulous Link Parties.
*Edited: Upon finally calming down, Ralph agreed to some photos to show off his green and blue Easter hair. Within 3 minutes after taking photos, his fourth meltdown of the day began. Practicing gratitude (and patience, lots of patience) every step of the way, I am.
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I am a midlife woman, wife, and stay-at-home mother of 2 boys and 2 cats. I have a passion for helping other women feel fabulous in the midst of this crazy, beautiful life.
41 Comments
Mary ANN SWEENEY
YOU crazy but HAPPY BLESSED EASTER MY NIece love you n FAMILY
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Thanks so much, Aunt Mary Ann! We love you, too! Many blessings to you this Easter.
xoxo
Shelbee
jodie filogomo
Happy Easter to your wonderful family, Shelbee.
XOOX
Jodie
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Thanks so much, Jodie! I hope you all had a lovely holiday as well.
xoxo
Shelbee
FASHION TALES
A lot of my family are military so I understand. I wish you and your family a wonderful Easter.
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Thanks so much! And a very Happy Easter to you and your family.
xoxo
Shelbee
Rashmi
Beautiful pictures dear… happy easter 🙂
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Thanks so much, Rashmi! I hope you had a lovely Easter as well.
xoxo
Shelbee
Tamar A Strauss-Benjamin
That print is so neat! Hope you had a good day!!
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Thanks so much, Tamar!
xoxo
Shelbee
michelle
Love your map! I want to get one for a special occasion. Seems like such a nice way to remember a special place.
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Thanks so much, Michelle! It really is such a cool print and a unique gift idea.
xoxo
Shelbee
Amy Ann Arnold
Sounds like you were such a patient mom! We have those days at our house too. Glad you all had a good Easter!
Amy Ann
Straight A Style
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Thanks so much, Amy Ann! My patience runs thin these days though. I hope you had a lovely Easter!
xoxo
Shelbee
Ashley
Love the photos! You are so right – it’s important to be grateful always. When we take time to stack up all of the things that we are blessed with, I think it really helps us to see the good instead of the bad. It can definitely be more difficult right now with the virus going on, but we can still choose to be positive.
Wishing you the very best week ahead, friend!
Make Life Marvelous
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Ashley, thank you so much! Your words are wise and I appreciate them so very much. Things are off to a great start this week, so the future looks promising! Wishing you a lovely week ahead as well.
xoxo
Shelbee
Joanne
We often spend Easter, in particular, alone so this year didn’t seem all that different to us either (other than we couldn’t go anywhere I we wanted). My boys don’t participate in much we do just since they’re all teenagers and that seems to come with the territory… so this was the first year we had egg dying, no egg hunts, etc. We did have a delicious meal together and enjoyed a wonderful dessert made for us by my son and that was enough.
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Joanne, thanks so much for stopping by! We have spent so many holidays alone that it really has no impact on us. Military life definitely prepares you for all sorts of real life things that lots of people have a hard time adjusting to. It makes me very grateful for this life. It sounds like your low key Easter was lovely even without all the fanfare!
xoxo
Shelbee
Sherry
How fun!!! I hope you and your beautiful family had an amazing day!! xoxo
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Thanks so much, Sherry! It was a peaceful and calm day after Ralphie was done throwing his fits! I hope your Easter was lovely as well.
xoxo
Shelbee
Sherry Joy
AND Mapiful is so cool! I would totally do the Zodiac map.
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Thanks, Sherry! I really like the Zodiac maps as well. But I let my husband pick what he wanted for this one!
xoxo
Shelbee
Patrick Weseman
Very sweet, you this is S.F. hippie likes the tye-dye and The Dead.
So very true about being grateful these days and we all learn a new normal. Thanks for this reminder.
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Thanks so much, Patrick! We are all hippie Deadheads in this house, even the children. And it really is starting to look like this “new normal” might very well be that…we may never return to our constitutional freedoms, I’m afraid. But we must still focus on gratitude.
xoxo
Shelbee
Marilee Judith Gramith
Looks like you have an extra place setting there? Or is that the “toast station?”
Maybe the stars just weren’t aligned quite right for Ralphie’s usual family-photo-fab-face? Several solo shots suited his self image more satisfactorily.
YOU GUYS MAKE FOR A WARM, HAPPY, HONEST EASTER CELEBRATION. I love your smiles to bits.
But…. where are the jelly beans?
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Thanks, Jude! Ralph is definitely a loner kind of kid! Other than breakfast, we sort of skipped all other Easter festivities. I didn’t want to load my kids up on jelly beans or other candy while locked in the house! Their Easter gift consisted of additional screen time with some virtual money to play their games. And they were happy as can be with that! And the fifth place setting was for our friend who has been living with us for the past few months. I hope your Easter was wonderful!
xoxo
Shelbee
Amy Johnson
such great advice to be grateful for the small things in life. Thanks for sharing your Easter Sunday with us.
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Thank you so much, Amy! I really enjoyed your Easter Sunday post as well!
xoxo
Shelbee
mireille
Love those flower dishes! And glad Ralphie agreed to a few pics! I have been struggling with giving grace to my 2nd kiddos, he does how to push my buttons but I need to remember he is my social butterfly. He has adapted well to being home but I am sure he misses his buddies. Hopefully, the neighborhood pool will be open this summer so he can play with some kiddos other than his brothers.
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Thanks so much, Mireille! I went for mix and match dishes when I bought these. But I am getting tired of them now! I guess that’s the way it goes. I am sorry that you are also struggling with a kid who pushes mom’s buttons. They really are pretty great at that, aren’t they? Archie is much more social than Ralphie and I know he really misses his friends. I had high hopes for social interactions this summer, but I don’t think that is going to happen. I hope you all a lovely Easter!
xoxo
Shelbee
April
We are a military family too, so I can fully relate. Every holiday is often very random-feeling. Love the map!
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Thanks so much, April! Holidays are totally random in the military! That is the perfect word to describe the feeling that surrounds holidays. We have celebrated Christmas on days that are not Christmas more times than we have celebrated it on December 25! I love these maps for remembering where we came from. I think they are a cool idea for military as well to print all of your duty stations and have an entire wall with them. I think that would be look amazing.
xoxo
Shelbee
Leslie Susan Clingan
Bless you, sweet mama. Motherhood is a grand exercise in years and years of patience. And grace. And lots of love, like no other.
I was a military wife for years and have celebrated many holidays without family. The hardest holiday for me was always Thanksgiving. That one just seems to me to be all about a family. And thankfulness, of course.
The Mapiful print is very interesting. Would be a great conversation piece. I wouldn’t know what location to feature. Maybe where my PC and I met?
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Thanks so much, Leslie! We have celebrated so many holidays not even on the actual holiday itself because of military. And friends become more of a fixture at the holiday table than family does. But it gives us a different perspective on being grateful, doesn’t it? I think it would be cool to have a map of every duty station decorating one wall! I hope your week is going well!
xoxo
Shelbee
Michelle
What a great photo of the 3 of you! And I’m glad Radical Ralphie came around and agreed to have his photo taken. Mischievous imp! Mapiful! Such a unique idea. I can see where Mapiful products would make a fabulous gift.
Michelle
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Michelle, thank you so very much! And ‘mischievous imp’ is the perfect description of Ralphie on most days!
xoxo
Shelbee
Dee | Grammy's Grid
Looks like a fun Easter! Thanks so much for linking up with me at my #UnlimitedMonthlyLinkParty 11, open April 1 to 26. All entries shared on social media if share buttons installed. I’d like to invite you to check out my other current link parties too!
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Thanks so much, Dee!
xoxo
Shelbee
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