Candle ideas - A Candlelight Party for Moms

By. Rhonda K. Reid

I belong to a Mom’s club and once a month we meet at one another’s house for a Mom’s only event.  Most of these Moms have multiple preschoolers.  Many of them have babies and haven’t had a good night sleep in years.  Needless to say, these aren’t women who have a lot of time to pamper themselves.

Recently, it was my turn to host the event.  Being a frazzled Mom myself, I initially grimaced thinking of all of the deep cleaning and preparation I would need to do to get my house ready for fifteen to twenty ladies that I was sure were better housekeepers than I.

I started worrying about it, and decided to my morning candlelight meditation to calm myself and get ready for the chores ahead.  As I sat breathing the scent of my SoyLuscious® Vanilla Incantation candle and staring at the soft flicker, it suddenly came to me. 

What these women need is not a perfectly scrubbed house and for me to be in the kitchen all day, greeting them at the door with a stressed out smile and a cloud of nervous energy.  What all of us Moms need is an evening to really bathe our souls in relaxation and to have a wonderful supportive evening with friends.  I needed it too.  That’s why we started the Mom’s club in the first place. So, I asked myself, how can I best make my party about giving the gift of rejuvenation to my friends, rather than a frenetic show of competitive housework? I looked down at my candle and smelled its sweet scent.   

When I stood up to prepare for my party, I first went online and emailed everyone, requesting that everybody bring just one appetizer – not too much work for anyone.   Then I stopped scrubbing the baseboards. 

The evening of the party, my guests filed in and immediately they started in on soft, appreciative gasping.  All of the lights in my house were off.  In each room I had placed inexpensive white twinkle lights up high – along the curtain rods, up and down the stair banisters, and so on.  But that was just the accent.  The focal point of everyone’s awe was how on every surface in each room I had strewn a variety of SoyLuscious® Soy Candles of every size in the fragrances of Vanilla Incantation and Lavender Mist. Each glowed a soft and luminous little light.  The room was filled with the most relaxing aromas issuing from the fragrant candles. They were different fragrances, but they blended together perfectly.  

Immediately I began to see tense shoulders relax, faces soften and breathing slow and deepen in all of my weary friends.  They sat their delicious appetizers here and there amid the candles as I made wine spritzers and then we all settled down for a nice, relaxing evening of conversation.  You could tell the difference in our cozy, intimate chatter.  It was quiet and unhurried, not the riotous rush to share stories and nervously giggle the evening away that is typical of our parties.   Maybe it was the soft light.  Maybe it was the aromatherapy treatment we were all getting.  Whatever it was, it was magic. 

Need I say that nobody noticed that my baseboards were not newly scrubbed or that my carpets might have needed
shampooing.  Everyone walked away that evening just a little saner, and no one more so than the hostess herself.  It is amazing how healing to the weary soul a little candlelight can be.

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