Mother Knows Best

" Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one. " ANDREA DOHERTY. THIRTY NINE. RISIDES IN ARAMORE, SCOTLAND. CO-OWNER OF NAILED IT. MOTHER OF TWO.

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[motherdrea]

oliviadoherty​:

A small birdhouse sat on the table in front of Olivia, a white sheet covered in different colours of paint fell over the sides, and she dipped her paintbrush in some of the yellow on the pallet besides her. “Do you think yellow is the right colour?” She asked, pausing for a moment and looking up at the person walking by. “I want it to stand out against the snow, and the grass whenever we see that again.” She laughed lightly. The birdhouse itself was a bit more intricate than your average birdhouse, with what looked like wooden panelling on the side, and a roof that had been crafted so as to look tiled. It even had a little letterbox at the side of the house. 

Andrea paused in her step as she stopped to see what her daughter was working on, a proud look formed on her features as she noticed the intricate design that she’d obviously worked hard on. “What kind of yellow were you thinking? And yellow all over or were you thinking of using other colours as well?” Of course she didn’t want to input too much, wanting her Olivia to have it be completely her own.

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mrnoahcarter​:

For a few minutes, Noah just leaned against the building thinking. It was 7am and if he knew Andrea, she would have been up till stupid o’clock working in the workshop. It was really inconsiderate for him to be thinking of waking her up but he had no choice. There was no one else he could turn to. It was with regret that he pressed the required buttons on his phone to send the call out into the void. After a few rings, he heard the click and her sleepy tone came down the line.

“Hey Andy, I’m sorry to wake up,” he started. Maybe he should just hang up now. He could just let her get her sleep and wait a few hours for the world to wake up so that he could catch a taxi back into town. But Andrea wasn’t likely to go asleep now he’d already woken her. “Can you come and pick me up?”

“Noah?” Hearing his voice was enough to shift the remnants of sleep, and for him to be calling at this time of morning automatically had her worrying that something was wrong, which of course had her shooting up from her bed. “No, it’s fine I’m awake.” She cleared her throat and tried to at least sound believable. 

Andrea was already out of bed and attempting to pull on clothes as she balanced her phone between her ear and shoulder so she could keep him on the phone. “Where are you? Are you okay?”

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mctheo​:

“Okay.”Theo nodded in consideration. “Ooh, what if I helped? Would that help with the cost any?” He said, offering her a wide smile. He knew he wasn’t all that experienced, but surely he could be of some use. “I haven’t got any solid ideas, but I have about 5 different things that I think could be cool.” He admitted, rubbing the back of his neck. “Though there would be some convincing to do…” 

“You-- You want to help?” Andrea sounded unsure, apprehension and confusion filling her at his suggestion. “Have you done anything like this before?” Of course if he wanted to learn, she had no intention of getting in the way of that but she didn’t think it would be a good idea for him to assist on this project until he had some experience behind him. “I guess we can talk things through, that’s if you’re being serious that is.”

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littlecassiepierce​:

Cassie sighed. Of course it wasn’t structurally stable - it was just her luck. At least Andrea was offering to help her get it sorted, but it would probably be way out of her price range. She’d just have to continue cooped up in her little lounge for the time being. “That would be great Andrea,” she replied with a small smile. “Would you be able to ask them and let me know.” Her eyes darted down the dark staircase again, wondering what was down there, before closing the door. “Can I get you something to drink?” 

“Promise you won’t attempt to do any of this until I’ve had someone look at it?” Andrea turned to face her, knowing just what the girl was like and fearing that if she did that she would be severely hurt. “I can be here when they check it out and talk to you if you’d like?” She figured the least she could do was offer support and the potential to translate whatever they might need to explain. “Only if you’re having one. Don’t go out of your way.”

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marcuskinsella​:

I liked you better when I was a kid too. You weren’t so old. Are those crow feet?

“Crow feet? Oh you cheeky bugger! I’ll give you crows feet when I shove my foot up your arse.” 

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mrnoahcarter​:

“If anything that’s made it worse. Long school hours and an un-get-throughable pile of marking and planning to do after school.” 

“And to think our younger generation is in your hands.” She smirked playfully.

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mrnoahcarter​:

Noah huffed out a laugh at her question. Did frequenting the pub count as socialising and getting out. What about all of his trips to the castle? Although, he spent most of that time thinking about Evelyn so that probably wasn’t what she meant either. “I could be doing more,” he confessed. But with work and his kids, he felt like he had no time to do anything. When she suggested that he came to hang around at her workshop, he was honestly relieved. Maybe that was what he needed right now. “When do you want me?”

Andrea knew that look, recognised the laugh he gave and it only made her rub her head as she wondered whether to interrupt him. “Noah, I mean with others. Socialising with actual people not just doing, well, this.” She waved her hand indicating the to the drinks. Of course she had heard the rumours and gossip around town, except this time she was witnessing it for herself and Andrea had to admit, she was concerned. “Whenever you want. There’s no pressure, Noah. I just thought it might help and I always find that the concentration just allows you to forget everything else.”

[motherdrea]

What is something that always makes you smile? ♡

Is it incredibly predictable to and boring to say my family?  

[motherdrea]

🪑 Honesty Day 🪑

[motherdrea]

“Oh I know what that face means. Can’t hide it, I know that that means!”

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Continued from here @mrnoahcarter​

It had been another late night in the Nailed It workshop, Andrea had been up until three am trying to finish a custom piece that needed to be collected the following day, so of course it meant that she didn’t climb into bed till four that morning. The last thing she wanted to be hearing while she drifted through dreamland and caught up on some much needed sleep, was her mobile phone. 

Reaching out from under her duvet and braving the cold while refusing to open her eyes and risk waking herself up completely, Andrea patted her bedside table until she managed to find where she had put down her phone when she’d got in. More than anything she wanted to through her phone until it stopped making noise and allowed her to go back to sleep, instead she hit the accept call. “Hello?” Her tone came out half asleep and drowsy.

[motherdrea]

Continued from here @littlecassiepierce​

Andrea wandered through the halls following Cassie as she tried to keep an open mind, though that didn’t stop her from thinking that the young girl had taken on a huge project that would take a lot of work. “Cassie, sweetie--” She bit her lip and glanced around again. “At this moment in time-- no, I’d say it’s unsafe and not structurally stable.” Andrea would admit that Cassie was right in the sense of it having potential, in fact if she got the right help it would look beautiful, even if it did currently look like something from a horror film. “I have some contacts, let me talk to them and see if I can help. I’ll talk to Harry as well, get his opinion.”

[motherdrea]

Continued from here @therowanblack​

Andrea kept her distance as she watched the other woman with wide eyes and her heart in her throat, her motherly instincts going into overdrive. All she wanted to do was pull her away from the edge and away from the potential danger. “Yes, yes, very pretty. Now please, can you just step back a little so I don’t have a heart attack.” 

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mrnoahcarter​:

“But, if I was left to create the amazing piece, I don’t think it would ever be finished.” 

“You’re still so easily distracted? I’d have thought being a teacher, you’d have worked on that.”

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mrnoahcarter​:

“But you’re the carpenter. So why do it when I could hire you to?” 

“Because then you get the satisfaction of knowing you’ve created an amazing piece but also because it would cost you a lot less.”